I take my hat off to you — or I would, if I were not afraid of showering you in spiders.

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.

Thoreau was an idiot.

Oh, I wonder if there's another way.

To hope is to wait for things to come to you. To dream is part of the process of setting goals and then striving to achieve them. You first must dream of doing things before you can do them.

My dear friend, we mustn't give them even the slightest excuse to judge us! Otherwise, we end up in pieces.

I have never had a point in my life to make. I'm just trying to entertain the reader.

There's so much I want to do as an actor. I feel like there's so much more that I want to achieve and that I can achieve.

One Saturday in 1984, I walked into my first AA meeting. I went regularly for six years and only stopped when I came to realize my underlying problem was not genuine alcoholism, but depression.

If being a decent soul is being maternal, then fine. I'll call it human.

They could do worse, and they undoubtedly will.

We all have our painful pasts we have to get through.