Instead of making Christianity a vehicle of truth, you make truth only a horse for Christianity.

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something.

Beauty without expression tires.

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

Life Is a Journey, Not a Destination.

Every sunset brings the promise of a new dawn

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

It wasn't as if she was terrified of heights, she simply preferred to be closer to solid ground, where words like plummet and plunge did not linger in her mind.

Friendship is not by force but by choice.You can never please everybody, he who aims to please everybody will end up pleasing nobody.

Pleasure feels better than pain. Make the pursuit of pleasure your guide.

Let him become a fool, that he may become wise.

Minerva, kindly go to Hagrid's house, where you will find a large black dog sitting in the pumpkin patch. Take the dog to my office, tell him I will be with him shortly, then come back here.

I'm too shy for personal appearances, and I've found out that anytime I talk about my writing, I can't do any writing for many weeks afterward.

We're trying to get good pictures. Don't worry very much about what I say.

I think religion should be treated with ridicule, hatred and contempt, and I claim that right.

I'm obviously not orthodox, I don't know how many real poets have ever been orthodox.

Meditation is such a more substantial reality than what we normally take to be reality.