My character of the Tramp, the millions of workers symbolized in that one figure.

You'll never find a rainbow if you're looking down

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world, not even our troubles.

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.

Life is a beautiful, magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish.

My pain may be the reason for somebody's laugh. But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody's pain.

To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!

We think too much and feel too little.

More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness.

Life laughs at you when you are unhappy; Life smiles at you when you are happy; But life salutes you when you make other happy.

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles.

It is hard to think differently. To change your world, change your thoughts.

As for Doing-good...I have tried it fairly, and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.

If you do not move in synchronization with time, you will be left behind.

As an immigrant, I appreciate, far more than the average American, the liberties we have in this country. Silence is a big enemy of morality. I don't want our blunders in history to get repeated.

What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.

No one will be much or little except in someone else's mind, so be careful of the minds you get into.

The hardest fight a man has to fight is to live in a world where every single day someone is trying to make you someone you do not want to be--

I see violence in myself; I've done some pretty violent things in my lifetime and I've been around some pretty severe violence all the way up to homicide.

To be a movie star, you have to carry a movie. And to carry a movie where you play the title role is the supreme example.

Triangular sandwiches taste better than square ones.