"Vanity is a personal parasite that must be fed until it is gorged and renders its victim a failure." — Lon Chaney, American actor, born 1883
"We all have the potential to move the world, and the world is ready to be moved." — Harry Chapin, American singer, born 1942
"All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl." — Charlie Chaplin, British filmmaker, born 1889
"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." — Charlie Chaplin, British filmmaker, born 1889
"That is why, no matter how desperate the predicament is, I am always very much in earnest about clutching my cane, straightening my derby hat and fixing my tie, even though I have just landed on my head." — Charlie Chaplin, British filmmaker, born 1889
"Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles." — Charlie Chaplin, British filmmaker, born 1889
"Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself." — Charlie Chaplin, British filmmaker, born 1889
"At this point in my life Id like to live as if only love mattered." — Tracy Chapman, American singer, born 1964
"I've seen and met angels wearing the disguise of ordinary people living ordinary lives." — Tracy Chapman, American singer, born 1964
"Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world see each other so that the world may come to being." — Teilhard de Chardin, French Jesuit priest, born 1881
"Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire." — Teilhard de Chardin, French Jesuit priest, born 1881
"Every person, in the course of his life, must build a work, an opus, in which something enters from all the elements of the earth. He makes his own soul through all his earthly days; and at the same time collaborates in another work, in another opus, the completing of the world." — Teilhard de Chardin, French Jesuit priest, born 1881
"The world is round so that friendship may encircle it." — Teilhard de Chardin, French Jesuit priest, born 1881