All I care about really is writing something worthwhile for children, something that will engage them in some way and stimulates in them a sense of wonder.

Feed the body food and drink, it will survive today. Feed the soul art and music, it will live forever.

Use your knowledge, and your heart, to stand up for those who can't stand, speak for those who can't speak, be a beacon of light for those whose lives have become dark.

Leave every place you go, everything you touch, a little better for your having been there.

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

I have always wished I could learn to be a potter. I love collecting ceramics; it would be so fulfilling to create something lovely.

Behaving like a princess is work. It's not just about looking beautiful or wearing a crown. It's more about how you are inside.

Hopefully, I brought people a certain joy. That will be a wonderful legacy.

The anateur works until they get something right. The professional works until they can't go wrong.

It is not enough to reach for the brass ring. You must also enjoy the merry go round.

Sometimes opportunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it.

She’d felt it before, she felt it now: the pull to fall in with him, to fall into him, to lose her sense of self.

When you dream for perfect life ahead, you may not get a fresh start always.Mend a little, bend a little. Find what you have, where you are. Adapt, improvise, move on.

Focus on the highest, clearest, and most meaningful teaching you can find, and let all else go.

I had lost faith in biography.

In the heart of a human being, emptiness becomes love. When we touch that Source, instantly the love is present. Literally, the divine becomes human and the human becomes divine.

2 Corinthians 3:17. Now the Lord is the Spirit...is that the one you like?

Your job, with all that mental training and suffering, is just to push your line of breaking so far your opponent can't find it.

Is it true that you shouted at Professor Umbridge?" "Yes." "You called her a liar?" "Yes." "You told her He Who Must Not Be Named is back?" "Yes." "Have a biscuit, Potter.

I'm aware that, from the outside, this looks like I've got quite an ego.

Sam has brown hair and very, very pretty green eyes. The kind of green that doesn't make a big deal about itself.