17 Quotes by Charles Wagner

Simplicity is a state of mind.

Yes, I am positive that one of the great curatives of our evils, our maladies, social, moral, and intellectual, would be a return to the soil, a rehabilitation of the work of the fields.

The just man is not the product of a day, but of a long brooding and a painful birth. To become a power for peace, a man must first pass through experiences which lead him to see things in their different aspects: it is necessary that he have a wide horizon, and breathe various atmospheres--in a word, from crossing, one after another, paths and points of view the most diverse, and sometimes the most contradictory, he must acquire the faculty of putting himself in the place of others and appreciating them.

My own personal concern is, this is not 1918, ... We have much more rapid movement today. Something that took weeks can happen overnight with a plane.

The parallel people often use is the California gold rush. People got rich selling picks and shovels.

I recognize that here are very efficiently run cooperatives. There are many opportunities for the Socorro Electric Cooperative to cut costs and offer more services,

Without love and kindness life is cold, selfish and uninteresting and leads to distaste for everything. With kindness, the difficult becomes easy, the obscure clear; life assumes a charm and it’s miseries are softened. If we knew the power of kindness. we should transform the world into a paradise.

If there are people at once rich and content, be assured that they are content because they know how to be so, not because they are rich.