I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Be yourself; everyone else is taken.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

To make a difference in the world, it only takes one optimistic person, who can gather millions of people to make the change.

Scrimgeour: "It's time you learned some respect!" Harry: "It's time you earned it.

Sometimes I don't even know why I'm writing what I'm writing...I'm just following these people around and taking notes.

My life is exactly what it's meant to be, and I'm okay. I'm. Okay. Those two words, yeah, they mean a lot to me. I'm not perfect, I'm not completely healed, but I'm okay. I'll take it.

So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level.

Stop hating on a n*gga that is a weak emotion, the lady of a n*gga.

In a world where wealth is growing, you can get away with printing money. Doubling the debt over the next 20 years is not a problem.

When you're not afraid to fail, you'll most certainly have the confidence to succeed.

When you're writing, at least when I'm writing, I don't think about themes and I try not to sermonize with any particular message.

In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good.