If you love something - and there are things that I love - you do want more and more and more of it, but that's not the way to produce good work.

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.

Success, like happiness, is a by-product, not a goal.

The first act in the training of a warrior should be how to string his rifle and turn it into a guitar

Healthy ecosystems promote healthy life.

Intuition does not in itself amount to knowledge, yet cannot be disregarded by philosophers and psychologists.

Don't wear your heart on your sleeve when your remarks are off the cuff.

So much of what holds us back in life are the long-held resentments stemming from childhood.

I see massive potential for entertainment to create wide sweeping change.

All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story, to vomit the anguish up.

I don’t see that her being cyborg is relevant.