H.W. Charles Quotes

When fans love something, they care for it, and that's the hugest success that you can have, as a storyteller.

I love engaging with the fans. It's fun.

Being of tall stature, it's rare to get a series regular role.

Who doesn't want to be loved? That's the whole point. So, when you can get that from someone across the globe, for just telling a story, that's a special thing.

The sobering thought is that individuals and societies are not, in the end, remembered for how they made their money, but for how they spent it.

An economy that adds value through information, ideas, and intelligence-the Three I Economy-offers a way out of the apparent clash between material growth and environmental resources.

Ordinary citizens are so accepting of what is going on, grumbling when their material interests were affected, but seemingly accepting the spiritual poverty so characteristic of today.

I need not shout my faith. Thrice eloquent Are quiet trees and the green listening sod; Hushed are the stars, whose power is never spent; The hills are mute: yet how they speak of God!

Around the corner I have a friend, in this great city that has no end.

All things, in all their aspects, consist exclusively of 'souls', that is, of various kinds of subjects, or units of experiencing, with their qualifications, relations, and groupings, or communities.

Do you remember which way I was heading?

Today it's something about hallucinogenic tea, but tomorrow it could be something that Roman Catholics or Southern Baptists or a number of groups need some accommodation in relation to a federal law.

There really is confusion out there. Finding common ground sounds good. But the reality is, a lot of people on all sides have a stake in the fight.

All roads for me lead back to Mozart. In his tragically short life, he breathed new life, fire and meaning into every form of music that existed in his time.

Music is a lens through which to see who we are. Every phrase of every piece of music is trying to tell a story.

We have pledged to be the greenest government ever. We must lead by example...We are not asking others to do things we will not do ourselves.

Developing low carbon sources of energy supply will enhance our energy security

Remember, there are only a few model preachers. We have read of only one perfect Model, and He was crucified many centuries ago.

It is vain to speak of approaching judgment when finding our place, our portion, and our enjoyment in the very scene which is to be judged.

Character is, for the most part, simply habit become fixed.

Hell is both sides of the tomb, and a devil may be respectable and wear good clothes.

In a life which has meaning in it, past and future sustain each other.

Little works, little thoughts, little loves, little prayers for little Christians, and larger and larger as the years grow.

Science has not solved difficulties, only shifted the points of difficulty.

Science is busy with the hither-end of things, not the thither-end.

The safest words are always those which bring us most directly to facts.

And let me say only this one word more: that the little things that a little Christian does are not any more than the larger things that an older Christian does.

Curiosity is thought on its entering edge.

Purpose, and to be thoroughly wedded to that purpose, is three quarters of salvation.

Any supreme insight is a metaphor.

Labor is the handmaid of religion.

Every thought was once a poem.

Sin spoils the spirit's delicacy, and unwillingness deadens its susceptibility.

Ideals we do not make. We discover, not invent, them.

Purpose directs energy, and purpose makes energy.

To persuade is more trouble than to dominate, and the powerful seldom take this trouble if they can avoid it.

We have no higher life that is really apart from other people. It is by imagining them that our personality is built up; to be without the power of imagining them is to be a low-grade idiot.

Life is a theatre of alarms and contentions.

When we hate a person, with an intimate, imaginative, human hatred, we enter into his mind, or sympathize -- any strong interest will arouse the imagination and create some sort of sympathy.

The actual God of many Americans... is simply the current of American life.

It is partly to avoid consciousness of greed that we prefer to associate with those who are at least as greedy as we ourselves. Those who consume much less are a reproach.

Selfishness of the stable or rigid sort is as a rule more bitterly resented than the more fickle variety, chiefly, no doubt, because, having more continuity and purpose, it is more formidable.

Once a citizen receives a direct payment from the state, the state has purchased their complicity

So now that the illusion of infinite growth is being exposed, the corresponding ballooning entitlements that enticed the larger public to become complicit in the illusion are becoming unglued.

Reality, unlike perception, cannot be changed by propaganda.

Humans are wired to feel uncomfortable with uncertainty and contingency, and so we gravitate to a position after a short time even if we have no new information.

Most things get steadily worse.

Awards are merely the badges of mediocrity.

One thing I am certain of is that, if I have done anything good in music, it was, first, because of my father, and second, because of my wife

Music is one of the ways that God has of beating in on man.