H.W. Charles Quotes

The mind is a powerful tool.

The ruling classes today nourish the conviction that national hatreds and rivalries are inevitable.

I have the greatest sympathy with the growth of the socialist party. I think they understand the evils that surround us and hammer them into peoples minds better than we Liberals.

Just do what you love, make yourself happy and then awesome people will gravitate towards you.

The human mind naturally adapts itself to the position it occupies.

I cannot take back one word or action; the past does not change for anyone.

I hoped that it would be possible to slide slowly from my public life back to the life of teaching and writing that I had always wanted. But things didn't work out that way.

Heaven must be in me before I can be in heaven.

Timing and pace are important in any film, whether it be comedy or drama. And how better to learn the fundamentals of these show show business ingredients than by dancing?

I don’t think success is a place or a definition, I think it’s a direction.

I am an owner who prefers to stay behind the scenes and allow my staff to do what they do best.

It is so much better to make a big thing out of a little subject than to make a little thing out of a big one.

Get into the habit of doing what you see, not what you know. Human reason cannot foresee the accidents of out-of-doors.

My soul is all an aching void.

Change is inevitable; but progress depends on what we do with that change.

A market economy is to economics what democracy is to government: a decent, if flawed, choice among many bad alternatives.

A great error is more easily propagated than a great truth, because it is easier to believe, than to reason, and because people prefer the marvels of romances to the simplicity of history.

It's not supposed to be easy, if it's easy, it's no good, that's the way I look at it.

Algebra goes to the heart of the matter at it ignores the casual nature of particular cases.

Many of the proofs in mathematics are very long and intricate. Others, though not long, are very ingeniously constructed.

By adopting the 'free trade,' or British, system, we place ourselves side by side with the men who have ruined Ireland and India, and are now poisoning and enslaving the Chinese people.

It's nice to play a character who's written as a mixed race character and is not a drug addict.

You want to know as much information as possible because it helps you make more informed decisions, but that's not always possible. There are a lot of different factors surrounding it.

Chaos is favorable to creativity.

I can become a positive virus, a hope virus.

The underground and the alternative is going to be substituted with being a virus.

Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

It seems to me self-evident that we cannot have capitalism without capital and, very importantly, that the ultimate source of all economic capital is Nature's capital

If your children want to alter society, listen to their reasons and the idealism behind them. Don't crush them with some clever remark straight away.

Boy, the things I do for England.

Music is nothing separate from me. It is me... You'd have to remove the music surgically.

I think that most great artists who are extremely known, as I am, would intimidate a lot of people. I don't want to do that to people, but I know I do.

If somebody don't like something that I do, that's his or her prerogative. Just like it's mine.

We spent a lot of time discussing cosmology first. I think that was your father's unique way of evaluating people. You can tell a lot about a person, he once said, by the way they look at the stars.

To capture the pawn, threaten the queen.

We're all born strangers to ourselves and each other, and we're seldom formally introduced.

I don't believe money is evil, but it can be terribly corrosive.

nothing can save you except writing. it keeps the walls from failing.

Perhaps second-hand cares, like second-hand clothes, come easily off and on.

Cultivate simplicity or rather should I say banish elaborateness, for simplicity springs spontaneous from the heart.

I won't put my ignorance on an altar and call it God. It feels like idolatry, like the worst kind of idolatry.

When we panic, we instinctively turn to our own internal resources because we doubt Him.

To require God to prove that He is able and willing to fulfill His promises would be proof positive that one does not trust Him.

Lucy: You learn more when you lose Charlie Brown: Well then I must be the smartest person in world!!!

As the poet says, all happy couples are alike, it's the unhappy ones who create the stories. I'm no longer a story. Happiness has made me fade into real life.

When you see no present advantage, walk by faith and not by sight. Do God the honor to trust Him when it comes to matters of loss for the sake of principle.

Good intentions and earnest effort are not enough. Only Jesus can make an otherwise futile life productive.

[Prayer] is the link between God's inexhaustible resources and people’s needs...God is the source of power, but we are the instrument He uses to link the two together.

I’m torn between the desire to create and the desire to destroy.

The winter will be long and bleak. Nature has a dismal aspect.