The only great spirit of our time.

Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.

We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.

Pain and suffering are a kind of currency passed from hand to hand until they reach someone who receives them but does not pass them on.

There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.

If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice of how he acts when he loses money.

A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.

There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.

The joy of learning is as indispensable in study as breathing is in running.

Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.

More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic.

That is the second time you have spoken out of turn, Miss Granger, ” said Snape coolly. “Five more points from Gryffindor for being an insufferable know-it-all.

I forgive you, " I said. I said what I had to. I would die by pieces to save myself from real death.

I love when my mind focuses on how wonderful I am and lets all the other (less generous) thoughts recede into the background. You're wonderful too, by the way. Way wonderful.

I wouldn’t change a thingBecause all those things led me tothis placeAnd to you

Take all that is given whether wealth, love or language, nothing comes by mistake and with good digestion all can be turned to health.

Sometimes I get a little nervous about wearing white.

Ken Jeong might be my biggest fan.

Being in the library is so addictive for me that I really have to exercise self-control so I can get some writing done at home.

The world is as it should be.

No good writer was ever long neglected; no great man overlooked by men equally great. Impatience is a proof of inferior strength, and a destroyer of what little there may be.