If you're gonna judge people by crimes, you get into a quagmire. If you're gonna judge people by themselves, by who and what they are, that's a different ballgame.

Life isn't that simple. Everybody has a dual potential to do good and bad and you're capable of doing both. But as to whether someone is beyond redemption, they're dangerous.

You have a responsibility to act for others when you're the only person in a position to do so. It's how you handle it that separates the great from the mediocre.

Whatever you want, you can make things happen.

The thing I've learned in life is that basically good people can do some really horrific things, and basically bad people can do some really good things.

Beauty is a cheap word, but beauty remains priceless.

Tread lightly on your partner’s heart. It was given to you for safekeeping.

Scrimgeour: "It's time you learned some respect!" Harry: "It's time you earned it.

It was one of those moments when you feel the future so much that it humbles the present.

Every year, I am reminded of the kids who aren't in the freshman class and aren't graduating. I remember every single one of them. That is the worst of times for me, to see the future snuffed out.

The able have no desire to appear to be so, and this is part of their ability.

A lot of novels use crime as a stepping stone to talk about greater issues. So I just think of myself as a writer.

Whatever the heart desires, it purchases at the cost of soul

Not to be born surpasses thought and speech. The second best is to have seen the light and then go back quickly whence we came

Asking Europe to disarm is like asking a man in Chicago to give up his life insurance.