I think that I've had a very strange life.

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 it wasn’t possible to reinvent the past in such a way as to make it conform to the present’s cheerful view of the way things ought to have been, why bother living?

All true leaders have learned to say no to the good in order to say yes to the best.

In that hothouse atmosphere, criminal records bloomed like orchids all around us.

Getting to share the stories in my head with other people and have them enjoy those stories, and having them come to see my characters as real. That's so cool.

Helvetica is the jeans, and Univers the dinner jacket. Helvetica is here to stay.

The best thing about switching from being an actor to being a director is that you dont have to shave or hold your stomach in anymore.

There are things about us that make us who we are, personality traits, or capacities that we have, or knowledge we possess or that we don't possess, habits we have that are good or bad.

When you stopped wishing things wouldn't fall apart, you'd stop suffering when they did.

We are made of stardust; why not take a few moments to look up at the family album?

I never felt I was incapable of succeeding because I felt confident I could always learn what I needed to know.