I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.

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.

If everyone bows in front of your wisdom, your greatest wisdom will be to tell them not to bow!

Zen gives you tremendous dignity. There is no authority anywhere. Freedom is utter and ultimate.

A society with a great number of prisons is a totally failed society because it has terribly failed to create a marvellous society where crime is not something widespread but an exception!

My summer reading suggestion: Pick a really famous, really long novel.

I have no time to waste on this planet being told what to do by those who think that God has given them instructions.

Jesus’ words are inseparable from his person. He himself is the message he proclaims.

I had a bad back for a couple of years. I had to do a lot of physiotherapy for it. What I couldn't understand at the time was why the therapists had me doing a lot of stomach work.

For my own part, I do not want the freedom of India if it means extinction of English or the disappearance of Englishmen.

I have been told by hospital authorities that more copies of my works are left behind by departing patients than those of any other author.

Power is more safely retained by cautious than by severe councils. [Lat., Potentiam cautis quam acribus consiliis tutius haberi.]