When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.

Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else.

There is always a certain peace in being what one is, in being that completely.

At any given moment, I open my eyes and exist.

To believe in God is to know that all the rules will be fair, and that there will be wonderful surprises.

Everyone has, inside himself ... what shall I call it? A piece of good news! Everyone is ... a very great, very important character.

If we have anything kind to say, any tender sentiment to express, we feel a sense of shame.

Thought itself needs words. It runs on them like a long wire. And if it loses the habit of words, little by little it becomes shapeless, somber.

All of us are mad. If it weren't for the fact that every one of us is slightly abnormal, there wouldn't be any point in giving each person a separate name.

There is no forgiveness in nature.

Nature is honest, we aren't; we embalm our dead.

Everybody finished the song at different times. At last, only the Weasley twins were left singing along to a very slow funeral march.

Dreams are less influential than actions and actions are less influential than results.

Let them ridicule you, laugh at you, hurt you & ignore you but never let them stop you.

I actually think it's sometimes easier for the control freaks to let loose.

It is your own convictions which compels you; that is, choice compels choice.

The idea of an election is much more interesting to me than the election itself...The act of voting is in itself the defining moment.

Actually, it seems like every time I'm about to pack it in, that's when I get a job.

Fortune had favoured me in this war that I feared, the rather, that some tempest would follow so favourable a gale.

Whenever a free man is in chains we are threatened also. Whoever is fighting for liberty is defending America.