I'm a writer, and I will write what I want to write.

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.

Every marriage is a mystery to me, even the one I'm in. So I'm no expert on it.

Americans really don't understand the Japanese nature, but it's not an easy thing to understand.

I would rather have the wrong facts and a right attitude, than right facts and a wrong attitude.

Don't be afraid to experiement with your life and with your heart, your meditation and your being. Just love.

A good mother is worth hundreds of schoolmasters.

I love to travel. I'm a curious person.

Literary characters, like my grandmother's apparitions, are fragile beings, easily frightened; they must be treated with care so they will feel comfortable in my pages

If hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have kept it all to themselves.

Human life must always be defended from its beginning in the womb and must be recognised as a gift of God that guarantees the future of humanity.

Racism is so universal in this country, so widespread and deepseated, that it is invisible because it is so normal.