I think it's alarming that people believe that success enables one to forget how life felt before. As if one could simply exchange one's values.

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.

Let your boys test their wings. They may not be eagles, but that doesn't mean they shouldn't soar free.

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.

It's no great achievement to go along with the crowd. Be the unusual guy, the extraordinary guy.

You cannot imagine how great it is to step out on the stage with thousands of screaming fans loving you.

What you newspaper and magazine writers, who work in rabbit time, don't understand is that the practice of architecture has to be measured in elephant time.

Praying's not going to help. Too late for that, Jane...I gave you a chance to have it on your terms. Now we'll do this on mine

Prepare yourself for the world, as athletes used to do for their exercises; oil your mind and your manners, to give them the necessary suppleness and flexibility; strength alone will not do.

I've always said that I'm open to changes in the relations between Cuba and the U.S., but that Cuba must make changes also.

... but I believe the divine ones will send other great masters to preach the truth to mankind, and that mankind will always receive them with the cross and the fire and the stones

My love's more richer than my tongue.