Beauty is an omnipresence of death and loveliness, a smiling sadness that we discern in nature and all things, a mystic communion that the poet feels.

I'm sorry, but I don't want to be an emperor. That's not my business. I don't want to rule or conquer anyone.

Hair is vitally personal to children. They weep vigorously when it is cut for the first time; no matter how it grows, bushy, straight or curly, they feel they are being shorn of a part of their personality.

Only the unloved hate; the unloved and the unnatural.

Had I known of the actual horrors of the German concentration camps, I could not have made The Great Dictator, I could not have made fun of the homicidal insanity of the Nazis.

Dictators free themselves by enslaving others. They work not for your benefit, but their own.

In the light of our egos, we are all dethroned monarchs