I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do ever - was write novels.

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.

Complacency delivered us into the hands of evil greedy men like Cheney.

You must live everyday of your life or you have wasted that many days of your life ...

Besides the gifts, the only thing that gave the headstones colour were the memories family and friends had of the people they represented.

Our leaders know we’re turning into a giant ghetto and they are taking every last hubcap they can get their hands on before the rest of us wake up and realize what’s happened.

I am really rather like a beautiful Jersey cow, I have the same pathetic droop to the corners of my eyes.

Listen to your body. Do not be a blind and deaf tenant.

Too many modern painters set themselves satisfied with just a coincidence, the spot in its raw, meaningless form.

The Our Father contains all possible petitions; we cannot conceive of any prayer not already contained in it. It is to prayer what Christ is to humanity.

The guiding motive of mankind should be charity towards men, charity towards all animals.

If you going to live by a certain code - as Bob Dylan said, you gotta serve somebody.