Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.

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 is still this moment and that will be true of every moment that follows, assuming this moment ever ends, which, if I am lucky, it won't.

Daily memorise one passage of Scripture.

It might be well enough to wander if you've a place and people to come back to, but I tell you now there's no desolation like wanting to go home and truly not knowing where it is.

You've got to reach a hand of friendship across the aisle and across philosophies in this country.

I did what I think a lot of entrepreneurs do. I started putting up a lot of ads on Craigslist for interns.

The man with the ball is responsible for what happens to the ball.

The first rule of improv is 'Never say no.' Use it when co-writing. To co-write, you need to be willing to be vulnerable with each other. You need to be stupid with each other.

Most people aren't in touch with their body and tend to live in their thoughts.

The great benefit of practicing mindfulness... is presence of mind within a storm of emotions.

Though you lose all hope, there is still hope, and it loves to surprise.