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

Nothing in life is permanent, not even one's troubles.

I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.

We might as well die as to go on living like this.

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

I am known in parts of the world by people who have never heard of Jesus Christ.

A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.