There,” she said softly. “Now he could be sleeping.

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.

I believe friends enclose us, like a pair of parentheses. Each one knows us differently, each sustains us in a different way.

I am a simpleton at heart. In my personal life, I don't wear makeup.

Seek to share joy with others, or to make somebody else happy, and you will find your own soul radiant with the joy you wished for another.

There are people much less fortunate than us, and I don't mean people hungry sleeping in the streets either

Hollywood, what a place it is! It is so far away from the rest of the world, so narrow. No one thinks of anything but motion pictures or talks of anything else.

It's important for me to get back to my fans here and around the world. I feel very, very blessed that so many people have continued to write me and to pour out their love for me and my work.

-'I don't see what good it's going to do for you to waltz back in there and--' -'Can I tango back in there, instead? So much sexier than the waltz.

Women who try to be equivalent with men need desire.

When I wrote and got out of the way, writing did writing.” (p.90)

The plan itself is opportunism. There is no plan before that.