Their reward for enduring the awful experience was the right to tell people about it.

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.

A yesterday missed can never be found even in a fine tomorrow.

Humility is not a virtue in a writer, it is an absolute necessity.

All that we can't say is all we need to hear.

Give and receive with gratitude. Do the former, without expectation of, the latter.

On many American campuses the only qualification for admission was the ability actually to find the campus and then discover a parking space.

The worst thing in this world next to anarchy is government.

Work: a dangerous disorder affecting high public functionaries who want to go fishing.

I love sequencing and programming, and I'm drawn to drum 'n' bass music. I love James Murphy's productions - and hey, he wears my socks!

Life teaches us to be less harsh with ourselves and with others.

One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.