'Harry Potter' gave me back self respect. Harry gave me a job to do that I loved more than anything else.

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.

People don't buy Moet & Dom because they love the taste, the buy it because they need "Livin' Large" photo on Facebook!

We do not have to know everything about something in order to understand it

I dance to the beat of the earth the memories are the lyrics I write nature leads my soul through this existence I call life.

Poems are soft kitten furs. smoothing out the rough edges of my world.

Education is learning more than it is being taught. It's the chemistry of curiosity exposed to information. In that sense all of life is potentially school. And even I can pass that.

I've always said winning's the great deodorant, and conversely, when you have a bad record - everything stinks - and everything starts to unravel, and everything falls apart.

The conception of what is normal varies not only with the culture but also within the same culture, in the course of time.

There are different rules for reading, for thinking, and for talking. Writing blends all three of them.

Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.

Mozart has written opera, symphony, sacred and chamber music - not to mention his piano and violin concerti.