Finding out what you’re good at, and doing it to the best of your ability, is the route to self-respect.

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.

First wives are a rite of passage into adult life. In many ways it’s important that first marriages go wrong. That’s how we learn the truth about ourselves.

One the advantages about this life is that you can hate someone without knowing him

Being must be 'felt' it can not be 'thought.

Should auld acquaintances be forgot And never brought to mind? Should auld acquaintance be forgot And days o'auld lang syne?

The judge also has a truth he wants to hide: He often hasn't been completely candid in describing the facts or the law.

Exposure to some pesticides during infancy, even at very low levels, can lead to serious life-long consequences if the pesticides disrupt hormone-driven developmental processes.

True humility-the basis of the Christian system-is the low but deep and firm foundation of all virtues.

Television in its present form...[is] the opiate of the people of the United States.

The poet laureate of England talked about murdering Jews on the West Bank.

If you instill in your child a love of the outdoors and an appreciation of nature, you will have given him a treasure no one can take away.