Fairies have to be one thing or the other, because being so small they unfortunately have room for one feeling only at a time.

All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.

If you cannot teach me to fly, teach me to sing.

The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.

To die will be an awfully big adventure.

It is frightfully difficult to know much about the fairies, and almost the only thing for certain is that there are fairies wherever there are children.

David tells me that fairies never say 'We feel happy': what they say is, 'We feel dancey'.

Girls are much too clever to fall out of their prams

It may have been quixotic, but it was magnificent.

The door', replied Maimie, 'will always, always be open, and mother will always be waiting at it for me.

The fairies, as their custom, clapped their hands with delight over their cleverness, and they were so madly in love with the little house that they could not bear to think they had finished it.

That’s what brave is, you know. Doing what needs to be done when you’re scared shitless.

My mind, brightened by the lights and the cheerful tumult, suddenly grasped the fact that all achievement was a placing of emphasis-- a moulding of the confusion of life into form.

Your plans are suicidal. At best.

During the time I have had WACs under my command, they have met every test and task assigned to them...their contributions in efficiency, skill, spirit, and determination are immeasurable.

Philosophy begins with the understanding that you cannot just observe or experience and then report what you see, because how you conceptualize and symbolize alters experience.

When you repeat a new pattern often, you literally change the neural pathways in your brain. This shift helps true change settle in.

The more fear confrontational activism can put into the heart of the political class, the better.

All the difficulties surrounding the making of Mars et Avril actually fueled its creativity and contributed to its international success!

People are annoyed with the Chinese for not respecting more human rights. But with a population that size it's very difficult to have the same attitude to human rights.

The principle of avoiding the unnecessary expenditure of energy has enabled the species to survive in a world full of stimuli; but it prevents the survival of the aristocracy.