Authority figures always attract trouble

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.

Despite the forecast, live like it's spring.

We live in an incredibly dynamic universe that gives us what we wish for, like a waking dream

We have laboured long to build a heaven, only to find it populated with horrors.

She listens to the delicate fluttering of sparrows' wings, tiny messengers. The sound reminds her of life - struggling, beating, rising, flying, and now dissolving into space.

Every new day begins with possibilities. It's up to us to fill it with the things that move us toward progress and peace.

Good actions ennoble us, we are the sons of our own deeds.

Someone will always be getting richer faster than you. This is not a tragedy.

I've definitely had ideas and plans that sometimes exceed my means and capabilities.

I have been illustrating Tolkien's books ever since I first read them, long before illustration became my profession.

Johnson had been the most powerful man in the world, yet the North Vietnamese and the Vietcong had resisted, overcome his power, broken his will.