J. K. Rowling

Ah music… a magic beyond all we do here!

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

Sad hurts but it’s a healthy feeling. It is a necessary thing to feel. Depression is very different.

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.

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.

Life has two rules: 1. Never quite 2. Always remember 1.

The little I know I owe to my ignorance.

We lift ourselves by our thoughts. We climb upon our vision of ourselves.

Don’t make me put your head in my blender!

Our life before moving to Washington was filled with simple joys. Saturdays at soccer games, Sundays at Grandma’s house. And a date night for Barack and me was either dinner or a movie, because as an exhausted mom, I couldn’t stay awake for both. He was still the guy who’d picked me up for our dates in a car that was so rusted out, I could actually see the pavement going by through a hole in the passenger-side door.

The worst things in history have happened when people stop thinking for themselves and listen to other people and, even worse, start following other people. That’s what gives rise to dictators.

And you know, there’s less charm in life when you think about death–but it’s more peaceful.

We now know that anything which is economically right is also morally right. There can be no conflict between good economics and good morals.

We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.

Blood banks are all closed; you can’t use others to keep you warm.

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.

Forgiveness of those who have transgressed against you, or those you love, is not about them; it is about you. It is a gift to yourself.

Trouble is part of your life — if you don’t share it, you don’t give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough.

Anger is nothing more than an outward expression of hurt, fear and frustration.