There was that sense of we had turned the corner. All of that time, all of that work, all of that effort – we were poised to make that next jump.

Each day you must choose, the pain of discipline or the pain of regret.

With confidence you believe you can overcome your weaknesses. With arrogance you don't even see your weaknesses.

How it could have been different, how different decisions and events could have taken place. I'm not sure how it would have played out differently. I just didn't want it to play out the way it did.

Submit to God and be at peace with him

I wouldn’t be a good wife, but I would be a wife in a way that was cinematically compelling.

A novelist's characters must be with him as he lies down to sleep, and as he wakes from his dreams. He must learn to hate them and to love them.

A joy that's shared is a joy made double.

Don't be sorry, my dear sir, for nothing could upset me today! Rejoice, for You-Know-Who is gone at last! Even muggles like yourself should be celebrating this happy, happy day.

You cannot learn anything from success, you only learn from failure.

In a sense, terrorism blossomed in the advent of television. Television promotes terrorism in religion and in politics.

Character, courage, industry and perseverance are the four pillars on which the whole edifice of human life can be built and failure is a word unknown to me.

Socially smart people have always mocked the threateningly mobile, and anti-branding is a central strand of high-end status conflict now.

The snow reminded me of the beauty and mystery of creation, of the essential joy that is life.