What you fear most of all is - fear. Very wise.

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.

Why do I do anything?' she says. 'I'm educated enough to talk myself out of any plan. To deconstruct any fantasy. Explain away any goal. I'm so smart I can negate any dream.

I keep coming back to you in my head, but you couldn't know that, and I have no carbons

Imagination is the first step of creation

Beauty is when you can appreciate yourself. When you love yourself, that's when you're most beautiful.

Change is an illusion because we're always at the place where any future can take us.

I generally don't enjoy relaxing and doing nothing on holiday.

The men who have had the most to give to their fellow men are those who have enriched their minds and hearts in solitude. It is a poor education that does not fit a man to be alone with himself.

I should like to know who has been carried off, except poor dear me - I have been more ravished myself than anybody since the Trojan war.

Rather than a teaching tool, I think a novel is more of a witnessing entity. A witnessing entity? What is that? I just want the reader to step in and experience it as a story.

By using patches of color and tone it is possible to capture every natural impression in the simplest way, freshly and immediately.