I am prouder of my years as a single mother than of any other part of my life.

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.

I feel that one species, mankind, doesn't have the right to exterminate

What you try to do, as an actor, is just make it work somehow.

I could take you down on this sidewalk and be up that skirt of yours in a heartbeat. And you wouldn't fight me, would you? No, she probably wouldn't. Wrath and Beth

You might be a redneck if directions to your house include turn off the paved road.

If you can't be kind, at least have the decency to be vague.

It's nice to do nice things, innit? I'm a nice person, deep down, I do nice things all the time.

Reconciliation requires changes of heart and spirit, as well as social and economic change. It requires symbolic as well as practical action.

My father was always a straight-up funny guy. He was silly. He was my inspiration.

Every man should marry. After all, happiness is not the only thing in life.

Perhaps all early love affairs ought to be strangled or drowned, like so many blind kittens.