There is plenty of ambitious competition and hypocrisy in the middle class, which makes it a rather fertile environment for a writer.

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.

Isn't it strange how the most lethal cynics are often the most optimistic creative dreamers?

Do not except anything as love without truth because love and truth have always been best friends.

For the first time in years, I have vivid dreams, vivid enough to count the stars and the number of ripples in the sea.

I don't know where anyone ever got the idea that technology, in and of itself, was a savior. Like all human-created 'progress, ' computers are problematic, giving and taking away.

You either fight active evil or you accept it. Doing nothing is acceptance. There is no in-between.

But simply someone who broke the law, came here, say, 'I'll give you citizenship now,' that I don't think is going to happen.

One lie does not cost you one truth, but the truth.

Did John Brown fail? John Brown began the war that ended American slavery and made this a free Republic.

But now I must affirm that it is just as wrong, or perhaps even more so, to use moral means to preserve immoral ends.

All you have to do is to pay attention; lessons always arrive when you are ready.