Every duty which is bidden to wait returns with seven fresh duties at its back. – Charles Kingsley
It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means. – Charles Kingsley
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements in life, when all we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about. – Charles Kingsley
Wherever my story takes me, however dark and difficult the theme, there is always some hope and redemption, not because readers like happy endings, but because I am an optimist at heart. I know the sun will rise in the morning, that there is a light at the end of every tunnel. – Michael Morpurgo