H.W. Charles Quotes

Do you believe in telepathy? No? Then what are you doing when you pray?

I prefer a saint with faults to a sinner with none.

There is a grace of life which is still yours, my dear Europe.

Live only for today, and you ruin tomorrow.

I'm one of the cliches that has grown up.

If it ain't broke, don't break it.

The disclosure of a new fact, the leap forward, the conquest over yesterday's ignorance, is an act not of reason but of imagination, of intuition.

Everything I do is Mingus.

Those who did not live during the years close to 1789 do not know the pleasure of living.

The bold defiance of a woman is the certain sign of her shame, - when she has once ceased to blush, it is because she has too much to blush for.

Money, again, has often been a cause of the delusion of the multitudes. Sober nations have all at once become desperate gamblers, and risked almost their existence upon the turn of a piece of paper.

It is not your hold of Christ that saves you, but His hold of you.

I disagreed with Carnegie's ideas on how best to distribute his wealth. I spent mine!

Work hard. Hard work is the best investment a man can make.

There's nothing like unrequited love to take all the flavor out of a peanut butter sandwich.

I proved to you that psychiatry is an exact science!" "An exact science?!" "Yes, you owe me exactly one hundred and forty-three dollars!

What if everyone in the whole world suddenly decided to run away from his problems?" "Well, at least we'd all be running in the same direction!

This is my report on how to live... They say the best way is just to live one day at a time... If you try to live seven days at a time, the week will be over before you know it.

Winning isn't everything, but losing isn't anything.

Never lie in bed at night asking yourself questions you can't answer.

One moment, please... We interrupt our regular program to bring you this special bulletin: It's a nice day outside.

Everything that gives pleasure has its reason. To scorn the mobs of those who go astray is not the means to bring them around.

I owned the world that hour as I rode over it. free of the earth, free of the mountains, free of the clouds, but how inseparably I was bound to them.

The preaching of Christ is the whip that flogs the devil. The preaching of Christ is the thunderbolt, the sound of which makes all hell shake.

Brandy and water spoils two good things.

We encourage one another in mediocrity.

For with G. D., to be absent from the body is sometimes (not to speak profanely) to be present with the Lord.

It is liberalism, whether people like it or not, which has animated all the years of my life. What on Earth did conservatism ever accomplish for our country?

After the Soviet collapse, Marxism is a relic, a pathetic anachronism reduced to its last redoubts: North Korea, Cuba, and the English departments of the more expensive American universities.

When you start attacking cronyism and peoples political interests, it gets nasty.

The streets were full of insane & dull people. Most of them lived in nice houses and didn't seem to work, and you wondered how they did it.

Before my death I hope to obtain my life.

Do today's duty, fight to-day's temptation; and do not weaken and distract yourself by looking forward to things which you cannot see, and could not understand if you saw them.

Obsolescence is a factor which says that the new thing I bring you is worth more than the unused value of the old thing.

I expect to spend the rest of my life in the future, so I want to be reasonably sure of what kind of future it's going to be. That is my reason for planning.

You can send a message around the world in one-fifth of a second, yet it may take years for it to get from the outside of a man's head to the inside.

A man must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.

Logic is a system whereby one may go wrong with confidence.

Learning professionals need to be thinking about creating learning experiences rather than learning content

Men are entitled to equal rights-but to equal rights to unequal things.

He that is conscious of guilt cannot bear the innocence of others:So they will try to reduce all others to their own level.

My dresses help women discover figures they didn't know they had.

For a lot of people, the weekly paycheck is "take-home pay" because home is the only place they can afford to go with it.

Success requires first expending 10 units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce 10 units of results with each unit of effort.

Every great inspiration is but an experiment - though every experiment we know, is not a great inspiration.

My God! What has sound got to do with music?

To have no heroes is to have no aspiration, to live on the momentum of the past, to be thrown back upon routine, sensuality, and the narrow self.

No matter how little a man has he will find that he will always settle for less.

Worry affects the circulation, the heart, the glands, the whole nervous system. I have never known a man who died from over work, but many who died from doubt.

All the reasons which require the subjection of a believer to the brethren of a particular church require his subjection to all his brethren in the Lord.