the flip side of success is fear. And fear is the devil. And success is the devil's dope.

In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

The only thing I like about being an actress is acting.

Absence does not make the heart grow fonder, but it sure heats up the blood.

People pay all that money to sit in a chair in the theater mainly because it is a respectable way to see and experience things they cannot see and experience in their own lives.

Art isn't something you do or are. It's where you aim, the target you shoot at.

In a great romance each person plays a part the other really likes.

Science, my boy, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.

The purest form of faith happens when you reach the bottom of your reasoning and find there is nothing that you can do that will make sense out of what you have been through.

Pride always puts [self] above others—and cuts [itself] off from them as a result. No one likes an arrogant, prideful person.

Are you planning to follow a career in Magical Law, Miss Granger?” asked Scrimgeour.“No, I’m not, ” retorted Hermione. “I’m hoping to do some good in the world!

I am a product of nepotism. I don't think I would have had the profession that I'm in currently... if it wasn't for my dad.

There are all kinds of stupid people that annoy me but what annoys me most is a lazy argument.

Rest is the fitting of self to its sphere.

They should set a very clear priority for the government. There is such a large penumbra of issues. The party needs to come to grips with the reality that it has to be coherent politically.

I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.

Sorrow is a kind of rust of the soul, which every new idea contributes in its passage to scour away. It is the putrefaction of stagnant life, and is remedied by exercise and motion.