Writers cannot choose their own mood: with them it is not always hide-tide, nor --thank Heaven!--always Storm.

Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive.

I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.

There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.

Whatever my powers--feminine or the contrary--God had given them, and I felt resolute to be ashamed of no faculty of his bestowal.

I knew you would do me good in some way, at some time--I saw it in your eyes when I first beheld you.

Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.

The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.

Friendship however is a plant which cannot be forced -- true friendship is no gourd spring up in a night and withering in a day.

Conventionality is not morality.

But life is a battle: may we all be enabled to fight it well!

He was in the right place. He was living his best life. How many other people in the multiverse could say that?

When we get a chance to take part in elections, I am ready to fight for leading positions, including in the presidential vote.

Be as you wish to seem.

I don't touch electric guitars. It's just not my thing - I stick with acoustic guitars only.

Don't be sorry, my dear sir, for nothing could upset me today! Rejoice, for You-Know-Who is gone at last! Even muggles like yourself should be celebrating this happy, happy day.

I think the media's the kind of thing where the truth doesn't win, because it's no fun. The truth's no fun.

Numb is the new deep.

They've not been able to control any Iraqi city. We're waging war against this snake and we will be victorious.

The biggest difference between a writer and a would-be writer is their attitude toward rewriting. . . . Unwillingness to revise usually signals an amateur.

Setting my mind on a musical instrument was like falling in love. All the world seemed bright and changed.