free time is an illusion. It's what you get when you die and the gods reward you for a life spent working from dawn until midnight.

Money talks and walks, but it does not bark.

You look as scary as a buttered muffin.

Without patience, magic would be undiscovered - in rushing everything, we would never hear its whisper inside.

Threats are the last resort of a man with no vocabulary.

It's harder to heal than it is to kill.

Waves are the voices of tides. Tides are life.

I myself have noticed my growing resemblance to a daffodil.

Didn't they realize that the only way to change things was to act?

Without reading, we are all without light in the dark, without fire in the cold.

Waves are the voices of tides. Tides are life," murmured Niko. "They bring new food for shore creatures, and take ships out to sea. They are the ocean's pulse, and our own heartbeat.

I think so, ' said Professor McGonagall dryly, 'we teachers are rather good at magic, you know.

Violent anger makes me physically ill.

Those who in principle oppose birth control are either incapable of arithmetic or else in favour of war, pestilence and famine as permanent features of human life.

I can't take one breath, not one single breath, without knowing that I love you.

We are simultaneously the most hated, loved, feared and admired nation on this planet. In short, we are Frank Sinatra.

In many ways, when you're a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to society.

That's one of the great things about DVD: In addition to reaching people who didn't catch the movie in theaters, you get to have this interaction of sorts.

Let's face it, most pretty girls aren't funny.

People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.

Being humble doesn't mean you lose; it means you have won. Give the victory to others.