
As is the case with all original creators, Charles Chaplin's working life was an amalgam of arrogant self-confidence and deflating self-doubt. —
Garson Kanin

Who feeds a hungry animal feeds his own soul. —
Charles Chaplin

I grew up on Harold Lloyd, Charles Chaplin, and Buster Keaton, and those were the ones who inspired me. —
Navid Negahban

There is so much obligatory generosity to being a good mother, a good wife, a good friend. Solitude is an acceptable form of selfishness. —
Anna Quindlen

Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony. —
Horace Walpole

I do not need drugs to be a genius, do not take a genius to be human, but I need your smile to be happy. —
Charlie Chaplin

Destiny is what is happening to you right now. —
Stephen Richards

You cannot explain the past, even if it were the present. —
Teresa Lakier

I don't deserve to be mentioned in the same sentence with Charles Chaplin. —
Stan Laurel

And what is the greatest number? Number one. —
David Hume

Self-criticism, cruel, unsparing criticism that goes to the very root of the evil, is life and breath for the proletarian movement. —
Rosa Luxemburg

No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion. —
Jeremy Bentham