Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships.

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.

Your breaking point will be a bloody refuge, not a clean slate.

You too can be as influential as the people that you admire. It is a matter of having the willingness to work relentlessly for it.

We are the pioneers of the world

During the season, most of my time to unwind is in my car ride home. When I get home, it's being with my kids.

I don't date dancers, but I've always wanted to teach guys how to dance.

If death is inevitable, one should try to die well.

If you're happy, you've got the Lord on your side.

A clerk and a ladder and warm golden light, and then: the right book exactly, at exactly the right time.

I love that Toronto is demonstrating that a big, highly diverse, multicultural city can actually work and work well, if its residents have the attitude of Torontonians.

When the moon covers the sun, we have a solar eclipse. What do you call it when birds do that?