The middle class is so funny, it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what makes the middle classes so funny.

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.

But it seems she’d wanted children after all, because when she was told she’d been accidentally sterilized she could feel all the light leaking out of her.

You create silent enemies by revealing how much God had blessed you.

You've got to go out there and do your things. Whatever comes your way, you jump on it, and like anything, that's how you get your experience.

I was always pretty good at school, but a lot of it was memorising, maybe cheating off your mates, stuff that gets you through.

Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony.

Government should take management lesson from private sector.

The man who invented the red carpet needed his head examined.

Love happens when you are ready to share with another human being. Prayer happens when you are ready to share with God.

You can say anything you want to say about me. But don't you dare address overweight people with terrible names and ugly remarks. That is what upsets me.

Everyday begins like a blank chalkboard, on which each one of us can write the poem of our present and our dreams for the future.