H.W. Charles Quotes

Mystery is not profoundness.

Oh, Creator! Can monsters exist in the sight of him who alone knows how they were invented, how they invented themselves, and how they might not have invented themselves?

Brothers and sisters should never be in the same family.

To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past.

Like our attitude to love, truth and goodness, we seem to be confident about knowing what beauty is - certain, even dogmatic - until we think hard about the idea, whereupon all confidence flies away.

Man is the only creature endowed with the power of laughter.

Meanwhile, our young men and women whose economic circumstances make military service a viable career choice are dying bravely in a war with no end in sight.

When people have a willpower failure, it's because they haven't anticipated a situation that's going to come along.

Anything awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral.

I have probably purchased fifty 'hot tips' in my career, maybe even more. When I put them all together, I know I am a net loser.

I believe that writing is derivative. I think good writing comes from good reading.

There is nothing more fearful for the average person in our society than to stand before a group of people and speak.

Music and politics are in essence about communication. Without over-stretching the analogy I do feel a sense of rhythm is important in getting your message across.

To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.

Lack of something to feel important about is almost the greatest tragedy a man may have.

There should be weeping at a man's birth, not at his death.

In 'thinking up' music I usually have some kind of a brass band with wings on it in back of my mind.

No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.

No one is ever holy without suffering.

As a member of the House Select Committee on Intelligence, I will be participating in several hearings on the startling revelations contained in the report.

I'm for economic independence.

Even if it were proven that God didn't exist, Religion would still be Saintly and Divine.

It is a common observation that those who dwell continually upon their expectations are apt to become oblivious to the requirements of their actual situation.

Such days of autumnal decline hold a strange mystery which adds to the gravity of all our moods.

A lie is like a cat: you need to stop it before it gets out the door or it’s really hard to catch.

All Church power is, therefore, properly ministerial and administrative. Everything is to be done in the name of Christ, and in accordance with his directions.

The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.

I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.

Nothing is as tedious as the limping days, When snowdrifts yearly cover all the ways, And ennui, sour fruit of incurious gloom, Assumes control of fate’s immortal loom

Our democracy poses problems and these problems must and shall be solved by courageous leadership.

When I was a little boy I used to borrow my father's hat, and make a press card to stick in the hat band. That was the way reporters were always portrayed in the movies.

All political power is a trust.

A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas.

If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.

The one thing we can all be sure about in politics is you are as well to expect the unexpected.

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

I have a stepladder. It's a very nice stepladder but it's sad that I never knew my real ladder.

Said will be a little ahead, but done should follow at his heel.

Full participation in government and society has been a basic right of the country symbolizing the full citizenship and equal protection of all.

The languor of Youth - how unique and quintessential it is! How quickly, how irrecoverably, lost!

I hate the thought of her being forced into a box that doesn't fit her. Of having her wings cut off, her sight blinded, her hearing muted, her voice stilled.

I suppose I was a little bit of what would be called today a nerd. I didn't have girlfriends, and really I wasn't a very social boy.

A handful of older, romantic leading men, like Sean Connery, Jack Nicholson, and Robert Redford are still landing parts.

I, for one, would think both about how far we have come as a country and how much further we need to go to erase racism and discrimination from our society.

Since my retirement, I've spent a lot of time trying to help the School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina. A society like this just can't afford an uneducated underclass of citizens.

The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you

I never see any difference in boys. I only know two sorts of boys. Mealy boys and beef-faced boys.

When we have done our very, very best, papa, and that is not enough, then I think the right time must have come for asking help of others.

My dear young lady, crime, like death, is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims.

Stranger, pause and ask thyself the question, Canst thou do likewise? If not, with a blush retire.