A tiny little wooden man [was] slowly ascending the steps to a real set of gallows, both perched on a box that read: Reusable Hangman — Spell It Or He’ll Swing!

What's life without a little risk?

It is not our abilities that show what we truly are. It is our choices.

We've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are.

Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.

It is our choices... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.

The world is full of wonderful things you haven't seen yet. Don't ever give up on the chance of seeing them.

There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction; the moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.

Gryffindor, where dwell the brave at heart!

Twilight fell: The sky turned to a light, dusky purple littered with tiny silver stars.

Yet it's not for want of future that I'm here, he thought. It's for want of a present.

The whole rise of new adult contemporary music and smooth jazz was a nice surprise.

I've been a very lucky actor.

I love jokes, but God, jokes can go so wrong. I have stayed up many nights thinking, "F**k. I can't believe I made that silly little joke. That was a disaster."

Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue.

It is the nature of beginning that something new is started which cannot be expected from whatever may have happened before. This character of startling unexpectedness is inherent in all beginnings.

It's a happy relationship when it's easy and when there's that trust and love and no jealousy or games or anything.

No, what I am doing is kind by telling people who are useless, "Do something that you're good at".

If any one of about 40 physical qualities had more than slightly different values, life as we know it could not exist.

Nothing in recent years, on television or anywhere else, has improved on a good story that begins "Once upon a time..."