Be ruthless about protecting writing days, i.e., do not cave in to endless requests to have "essential" and "long overdue" meetings on those days.

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.

It's an unavoidable truth. Fear of life closes off more opportunities for us than fear of death ever does.

...and the great advantage of being a literary woman, was that you could go everywhere and do everything.

Thank you for letting idiots like me, come out and live this wonderful wonderful dream. I love you to death. Lets go home.

The stars remind us every night that we have the opportunity to create heaven on earth. from The Expected One

I was excited about getting my first tattoo, but I was only twelve, so I had to hide it from my mother.

I want the standard of living in Iran in ten years' time to be exactly on a level with that in Europe today. In twenty years' time we shall be ahead of the United States.

The smallest errors are always the best.

Disputational knowing wants customers. It has no soul.

If a person has ten habits out of which nine are good and one bad, that bad one will destroy the good ones.

If God himself was not willing to use coercion to force man to accept certain religious views, man, uninspired and liable to error, ought not to use the means that Jehovah would not employ.