That's friendship, each playing the potter to see what shapes we can make of the other.

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.

Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.

Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.

Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things.

Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down.

I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it.

Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

Write a short story every week. It's not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.

Everyone is given the potential to excel, whether you do or not is entirely up to you.

My dad probably gave me the best advice growing up. I think it's really just keeping your cool in situations and learning to balance everything.

Time has a funny way of airbrushing relationships, removing all the things that were wrong so when you look back it looks much better than it really was.

We can make sure that people who don't have health insurance can buy into an insurance pool that gives them better bargaining power.

Moses probably danced a little, right? You don't part the Red Sea without having some moves.

The secret of happiness is the determination to be happy always, rather than wait for outer circumstances to make one happy.

Your great puddin' of a son don' need fattin' anymore Dursley, don't worry

Which only goes to show that the best of us must sometimes eat our words,' Dumbledore went on, smiling.

Bill Clinton was a liberal who could appeal to conservative-leaning Bubba voters.

Smokey Joe (Williams) could throw harder than anyone.