In fact, you couldn't give me anything to make me go back to being a teenager. Never. No, I hated it.

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.

We should be unshakable and uncompromising while we stand for God’s truth

The Buddha-nature which is ours from the very beginning is like the sun which emerges from the clouds, or like a mirror which, when rubbed, regains its original purity and clarity. (217)

We usually can't know how, and we probably should not even ask, how our lives contribute to a better world.

I think Whitman more than any other poet possessed the gift of revealing to others the beauty of everything around us, the beauty of nature, the beauty of human beings.

Praise day at night, and life at the end.

We live in a world where everything is connected.

College men from L.S.U., went in dumb, come out dumb, too.

I thought I was going to go back to Stanford, and then I got Election. I loved being an actor.

I reckon I am a smart aleck, but it is just a way to pass the time.

Scary thought - what if I get to know myself and I'm someone I don't want to be?