Death comes for us all in the end.

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.

When I hug you, I feel like I am hugging the universe of joy, and I emerge with the ecstasy of life.

I didn't want to do something that was easy for me.

[Gore] tended to drone on and on, in singsong, narcotizing cadences best endured by the heavily caffeinated.

A primitive artist is an amateur whose work sells.

Run, we think, as buildings crumble. Run, as people perish.

My entire life has been centered around my writing, and by that I mean finding the time to write.

Many people tell me what I ought to do and just how I ought to do it, but Few have made me want to do something.

The only mistake is not to risk making one.

Just as nature abhors a vacuum, humans resist change. Change will occur; vacuums will be filled.

Lived in his saddle, loved the chase, the course, And always, ere he mounted, kiss'd his horse.