Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.

For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.

It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.

To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.

The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.

O woman! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!

Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.

Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.

If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.

How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.

Look back, and smile on perils past.

The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn, a philosophical hour, and thus a melancholy hour.

Don't, Ginny, we'll send you loads of owls.We'll send you a Hogwarts toilet seat.George!Only joking, Mum.

As important as increase is, it is not an end in itself

I like the dreams for the future better than the history of the past.

I wasn't a very good student. I prefer to learn by experience.

Don't downgrade your dream to match your reality. Upgrade your faith to match your destiny.

The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange.

doubt is the privilege of those who have lived a long time

This is a proof of a well-trained mind, to rejoice in what is good and to grieve at the opposite.