H.W. Charles Quotes

The best learning happens in real life with real problems and real people and not in classrooms.

We beg you to save young America from the blight of race prejudice. Do not bind the children within the narrow circles of your own lives.

Slavery was never abolished, it was only extended to include all the colors.

No one can love you until you love yourself, and you cannot love anyone else, until you love yourself.

The whole world is an art gallery when you're mindful. There are beautiful things everywhere and they're free.

Peace on earth, and mercy mild God and sinners reconciled.

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of.

A teardrop on earth summons the King of heaven.

Who often, but without success, have prayed for apt Alliteration's artful aid.

Christians are not so much in danger when they are persecuted as when they are admired.

Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.

You will never glory in God till first of all God has killed your glorying in yourself.

Isn't it strange that we talk least about the things we think about most?

God gave us sleep to remind us we are not him.

You are as welcome as the flowers in May.

If "ifs" and "ands" were pots and pans, there'd be no work for tinkers' hands

Wherever the crowd goes run in the other direction. They're always wrong.

When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. We are angry at each other much of the time.

You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.

I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.

I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.

When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.

I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.

Atheism is a strange thing. Even the devils never fell into that vice.

Tolerance once meant that we could use our reason to discern good and evil in open debate. Today tolerance has been used to call good evil and evil good.

Water is the mother of the vine, the nurse and fountain of fecundity, the adorner and refresher of the world.

It isn't the incompetent who destroy an organization. It is those who have achieved something and want to rest upon their achievements who are forever clogging things up.

One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide.

It was a perfect night for a train. The occasional whistle told Louis of all the farewells he had ever known.

You always have God's undivided attention.

It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.

O child of God, be more careful to keep the way of the Lord, more concentrated in heart in seeking His glory, and you will see the loving-kindness and the tender mercy of the Lord in your life.

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.

Sometimes I lie awake at night, and ask, 'Where have I gone wrong?' Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night.'

I am what you designed me to be.I am your blade. You cannot now complain if you also feel the hurt

New thoughts and hopes were whirling through my mind, and all the colours of my life were changing.

It is impossible to concieve of this immense and wonderful universe as the result of blind chance or necessity.

There's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out.

The world belongs to those who set out to conquer it armed with self confidence and good humour.

Since the masses are always eager to believe something, for their benefit nothing is so easy to arrange as facts.

We may go to the moon, but that' s not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within us.

History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads.

We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.

If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start.

Ask her what she craved, and she'd get a little frantic about things like books, the woods, music. Plants and the seasons. Also freedom.

Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all others were making ships.

It's all a matter of paying attention, being awake in the present moment, and not expecting a huge payoff. The magic in this world seems to work in whispers and small kindnesses.

An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously.

But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.