When people are very damaged, they can often meet the world with a kind of defiance.

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.

We too had branched off from the people who had come before us, a family that made the family that made us, and we were shining in the darkness and casting our light all around us.

Getting caught up in someone else's dream is like a drug. Sometimes you have to go cold turkey. ~ Susan J. McIntire

Then, I started running. And everything was as good as it could be.

It's a sad commentary when I have to say that sometimes in our country we are real sensitive to race.

We put the fun back into dysfunctional

I'm prouder of my weight loss than my Oscar! I hope it has inspired people.

Nobody seriously believes the universe was made by God without being persuaded that He takes care of His works.

When I was a kid, I had this idea that I would have a beard when I got older. I thought it'd be nice to rub my chin.

I don't really party.

Excessive taxation . . . will carry reason & reflection to every man's door, and particularly in the hour of election.