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

Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.

Death comes for us all in the end.

It is our choices, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

No man or woman alive, magical or not, has ever escaped some form of injury, whether physical, mental, or emotional. To hurt is as human as to breathe.

Print will never die. There’s no substitute for the feel of an actual book.

Greatness inspires envy, envy engenders spite, spite spawns lies.

Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.

Unlike any other creature on this planet, humans can learn and understand, without having experienced.

There’s always room for a story that can transport people to another place.

Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.

The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.

What’s the worst that could happen? Everyone turned me down; big deal.

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

I’m a writer, and I will write what I want to write.

If it’s a good book, anyone will read it. I’m totally unashamed about still reading things I loved in my childhood.

We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.

Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.

Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. Every job is a self portrait of the person who did it. Autograph your work with excellence.

When we blather about trivial things, we ourselves become trivial, for our attention gets taken up with trivialities. You become what you give your attention to.

As an alcoholic, you will violate your standards quicker than you can lower them.

Writing for children is murder. A chapter has to be boiled down to a paragraph. Every word has to count.

We should begin at the very root from which we spring, we should effect a radical reform in the character of the food.

I realize everybody wants what they don’t have. But at the end of the day, what you have inside is much more beautiful than what’s on the outside!