Charlie Chaplin

"Peace is more precious than gold"

"I've never needed much to get by on"

"The beauty of a smile is in its power to create"

"Patience is not a virtue, it's a necessity"

"I became a workaholic to escape my personal demons"

"Success is not something that happens, it's something you create"

"I remain just one thing, and one thing only – and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician."

"Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself."

"We think too much and feel too little."

"Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone."

"I have no faith in political liberty or political democracy. But I have faith in the people themselves."

"Nothing is permanent. Not even our troubles."

"Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people."

"All I want to do is go the distance."

"I don't believe that politics should dictate the way you live your life."

"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."

"A man may look ridiculous at home in his armchair, but he is wasting less humanity's time than a politician."

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

"The purpose of making a picture is not to make money, but to make meaning."

"I have nothing to say, but it must be said."

"The great dictator has one gift – the power of speech."

"Despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt."

"I'll never stop fighting for what I believe in."

"Without music, life would be a mistake."

"The passion for power is the insect that apes the elephant."

"Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see."

"Old age means realizing you will never own all the dogs you wanted to."

"At last I can say what I want!"

"The way of the world is to bloom and to flower and decline and fall."

"More than machinery we need humanity."