But I was the most unashamed lone parent you were ever going to meet.

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.

Time is the greatest wealth

If the caged birds think whoever scattering grains for them that person is their deity, what should we Kurds call the person who will grantee us an independence.

The hobgoblin of a little mind may be the genius of a great one.

Angels belong to a uniquely different dimension of creation which we, limited to the natural order, can scarcely comprehend.

If you don't like your world, question your thoughts about it.

The only thing I'm addicted to right now is winning.

I feel like a cliche.

I'm gregarious with writers and never with manuscripts . . . I [like to] create the illusion of seamless perfection, so I alone know the flawed homely process along the way.

A lot of men, they don't put anything on their faces. And some women also overdo it.

This business of saying the same thing over and over and over again – which to a lot of Washington insiders and pundits is boring – works.