I'll be writing until I can't write anymore. It's a compulsion with me. I love writing.

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.

Love and intuition are both the language of the soul. Speak soul.

The gift of kindness brightens the life of other people.

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

The primary moral judgment on candidates and their positions is to be made in the light of their concern for protecting human life from conception to natural death.

If you want to know whether you have written anything worth preserving, sing it to yourself without any accompaniment.

Yeah when I was 7 or 8 my moms would have little parties, and I would play the music.

Daily experience proves clearly to everybody but the most bigoted fanatics of socialism that governmental management is inefficient and wasteful.

And I don't think that success is going to destroy me at this point in my life, like I used to think.

Even after I'd published three books and had been writing full-time for twenty years, my father continued to urge me to go to law school.

An admiral should be put to death now and then to encourage the others.