There's a time and a place for getting a smart mouth.

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.

God is always present. We’re the ones who show up.

I had a dream about you last night, you were the same piece of S**t I know and hate in real life.

I've never looked forward to a birthday like I'm looking forward to my new daughter's birthday, because two days after that is when I can apply for reinstatement.

We all know that there are these exemplars who can take the toughest students, and they'll teach them two-and-a-half years of math in a single year.

When people complain of life, it is almost always because they have asked impossible things of it.

I was a single mother when my child was little.

Next to jazz music, there is nothing that lifts the spirit and strengthens the soul more than a good bowl of chili.

Running is the classical road to self-consciousness, self-awareness, and self-reliance.

I breathed the book before I saw it; tasted the book before I read it.

Who is to say what is real and what is not?'Real' is a distinction of a naïve mind.