Think, speak, and act. With age comes self-reproach: I might have done more. Therefore now do!

How in the name of Merlin's pants have you managed to get your hands on those Horcrux books?

What does not engage our feelings does not long engage our thoughts either.

Your pain and struggles only serve to remind you that you are alive.

When sitting in meditation, say, "That's not my business!" with every thought that comes by.

Each of us is born into our own mysteries but the mystery of another might just take us in and embrace us. And then what a sense of homecoming, of belonging!

Raising a child, whether or not it is yours, is like Nautilus of the heart and soul.

[When people] say 'let's do something about it,' they mean 'let's get hold of the political machinery so that we can do something to somebody else.' And that somebody is invariably you.

Heroes are a mischievous race.

If you fall seventy times a day, rise seventy times and return to God so that you will not fall too often.

As a young girl, I just wanted to have fun and compete. There were no goals of becoming an Olympic athlete. I wanted to hang out with my friends. I wanted to do something fun, and that's what I did