J. K. Rowling

Anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all-in which case, you fail by default.

We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already. We have the power to imagine better.

What’s to be ashamed of? I went through a really rough time, and I am quite proud that I got out of that.

If you seek the removal of freedoms from an opponent simply on the grounds that they have offended you, you have crossed a line to stand alongside tyrants who imprison, torture and kill on exactly the same justifications.

Ah music… a magic beyond all we do here!

Not only is it a part of my life, I need to bring awareness to the severity of Lyme disease.

I keep healthy and I’m always very active and always have been so. I don’t really see any signs of aging yet. Music keeps you young.

You don’t see the mental illness: It’s not a mass; it’s not a cyst. But it’s there. Why do you need to prove it?

If you said you had homosexual tendencies they sent you to a psychiatrist.

I think Viagra is wonderful if you need it, if you have medical issues, if you’ve had surgery. I’ve just never needed it. Frankly, I wouldn’t mind if there were an anti-Viagra, something with the opposite effect. I’m not bragging. I’m just lucky. I don’t need it.

You have good days and bad days, and depression’s something that, y’know, is always with you.

The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.

For four to six months at a time, I would barely eat. I lived on a diet of Melba toast, carrots, and black coffee.

HIV infection and AIDS is growing – but so too is public apathy. We have already lost too many friends and colleagues.

If today I can practice a sport, and move around 90% of the time without a cane, it’s because of the love and support of my producers, record labels and above all my audience who have always believed in me. Otherwise I wouldn’t have made much more progress than I did in the hospital.

You may feel depressed, but it can’t be so depressing that you can’t move. No, I would say that people create in moments when they are elated about expressing their depression!

[on depression] This is a disorder that affects millions of people and I am on of them. There is no need to suffer silently and there is no shame in seeking help.

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

Exercise is labor without weariness.

When individuals have access to the information about their bodies they can begin to change outcomes.