“I think it’s the books that you read when you’re young that live with you forever.”

You must accept the reality of other people.

You must accept the reality of other people.

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

The truth is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.

Size is no guarantee of power.

We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.

Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it.

A good first impression can work wonders.

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential.

Life is too short. I only want to do things that I enjoy, or that I think are good or worth doing.

Imagination is the foundation of all invention and innovation.

Depression is very different.

First sign of madness, talking to your own head.

Hearing voices no one else can hear isn’t a good sign, even in the wizarding world.

When people are very damaged, they can often meet the world with a kind of defiance.

Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.

For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.

My heart woke me crying last night how can I help I begged my heart said-write the book.

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.

There was something very comfortable in having plenty of stationery.

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

A book is a dream that you hold in your hands.