I want to fall in love with something in the way I fell in love with the idea of Harry before I write anything else.

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.

Hard work is vital to success. As long as it's in the right direction!

Then Samson said. With a donkeys jawbone I have made donkeys of them. With a donkey's jawbone I have killed a thousand of them.

It's bad to be unable to stand solitude.

To discern profits only when it is within the ken of the market herd is not the acme of investing excellence

I joke, but I only half joke, that if you come to one of our hospitals missing a limb, no one will believe you till they get a CAT scan, MRI, or orthopedic consult.

I'm so secure in myself I couldn't care less what people think of me.

I like bright colors.

Philosophers are smart, analytical, and skeptical. For these reasons they are relatively unbiased.

My rule is simply "love what you do". That certainly has brought me to the place I where am at right now. It really has been with the work.

Our goal, simply stated, is to be the best.