"I'd rather that England should be free than that England should be compulsorily sober. With freedom we might in the end attain sobriety, but in the other alternative we should eventually lose both freedom and sobriety."

“Out of the dusk a shadow, Then a spark; Out of the cloud a silence, Then a lark; Out of the heart a rapture, Then a pain; Out of the dead, cold ashes, Life again.”

Source : John B Tabb (1894). “Poems by John B Tabb”

“As a filmmaker you make your films with the audience you want to attract in mind.”

Source : "Chika Anadu On Her Debut ‘B for Boy,’ Transitioning To Film, Telling ‘Women’s Stories,’ More". Interview with MsWOO, www.indiewire.com. October 29, 2013.

“There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.”

“Soap, gloves, isolating patients, not reusing needles and quarantining the contacts of the ill - in theory it should be very easy to contain Ebola”

“The greatest strategy is doomed if it's implemented badly.”

“There is a crucial distinction to be made between innovation and originality. The second, unlike the first, can never break with what preceded it: to be original, an artist must also belong to the tradition from which he departs. To put it another way, he must violate the expectations of his audience, but he must also, in countless ways, uphold and endorse them.”

“Travel is like knowledge. The more you see, the more you know you haven’t seen.”

Source : Mark Hertsgaard (2009). “Earth Odyssey: Around the World in Search of Our Environmental Future”, p.16, Broadway Books

“Realize that the Lord is here now, and the freedom you receive is immediate.”