Why do you live?Because I have something worth living for.

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.

Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.

Literature is a mystical place for me. It's not dry. It's where miracles happen.

If freedom were not so economically efficient it certainly wouldn't stand a chance.

I look forward to doing my own show, not someone else's. That's always been my dream.

Madame Bovary is the sexiest book imaginable. The woman's virtually a nyphomaniac but you won't find a vulgar word in the entire thing.

If stealing a few saltshakers was wrong I didn't want to be right.

Berthe Morisot was a painter full of eighteenth-century delicacy and grace; in a word, the last elegant and 'feminine' artists since Fragonard.

It's not enough that [the photograph] is beautiful. If it doesn't move my heart, it won't move anyone else's heart.

The true objective of war is peace.

I have no formal culinary training, right.