She was actively frightened of imparting confidences, because she feared that they might betray the world of oddness that lived inside her

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.

True leaders apply law and grace, for those who only apply only law have little influence and those who apply only grace do not influence properly.

You endure what is supposedly unbearable, and before you know it, you would have done the impossible by bearing the unbearable.

Children act on the words they hear.May your words be gracious to the hearing of children.May your words inspire and challenge children to fulfill their true potential.

The genre has moved into this commercial aspect of itself, and ignored this extraordinarily rich literature that's filed everywhere else except under travel.

No language is rude that can boast polite writers.

Not die here in a rage, like a poisoned rat in a hole.

If you don't understand your limitations you won't achieve much in your life.

I am like many of the women I have played onscreen.

Music is my passion - it's what I love and it's in my blood. You can never take me away from my work.

Nothing precludes sympathy so much as a perfect indifference to it