Nothing can happen nowhere. The locale of the happening always colours the happening, and often, to a degree, shapes it.

One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.

Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.

When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out.

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.

We are minor in everything but our passions.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.

It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets.

Disappointment tears the bearable film off life.

I believe you can only be lucky if you start out beingvery good

Of all the gifts, love is the greatest gift.

It's hard enough for a person to keep their own socks pulled up, let alone someone else's.

The highest aim was never to master Jiu Jitsu

A one-book man is either a slow learner or an ill-equipped teacher.

I think at this stage in my life I have learned that there are any number of things that men will never know, and can never hope to know, about women.

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

I hope my visual language inspires others to tell their stories and challenges people's thinking.

The idea of Dumbledore's corpse frightened Harry much less than the possibility that he might have misunderstood the living Dumbledore's intentions.

For my part, if a lie may do thee grace, I'll gild it with the happiest terms I have.