"For ultimately, the only way to win wars, is to prevent them occurring in the first place."

“When facing a dilemma, choose the more morally demanding alternative.”

“During our travels, the Indians entertained me well; and their affection for me was so great, that they utterly refused to leave me there with the others, although the Governor offered them one hundred pounds sterling for me, on purpose to give me a parole to go home.”

“Sometimes since I've been in the garden I've looked up through the trees at the sky and I have had a strange feeling of being happy as if something was pushing and drawing in my chest and making me breathe fast. Magic is always pushing and drawing and making things out of nothing. Everything is made out of magic, leaves and trees, flowers and birds, badgers and foxes and squirrels and people. So it must be all around us. In this garden - in all the places.”

Source : Frances Hodgson Burnett (2003). “The Secret Garden: Centennial Edition”, p.143, Penguin

“I don't think competition is good in music. What is good, is the desire and the ambition to create your best work.”

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“I have moved on from being a British parliamentarian, I have moved on from being a New Labour politician, I have moved on from being the supporter in the active day-to-day sense of Tony Blair.”

“If you don't give something back when you get, you don't keep.”

“All during that prison time I really lived by prayer. Be in prayer always, we're told, and back then I was.”

“Men can not stand the explosive mixture of beauty and intelligence.”