J. K. Rowling

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.

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.

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.

Ah music… a magic beyond all we do here!

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

If you need a miracle, be a miracle.

Experience is what you get when you don’t get what you want.

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

I comfortable with everything – say whatever you want.

If the human mind was simple enough to understand, we’d be too simple to understand it.

When you embark for strange places don’t leave any of yourself safely at the shore… Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.

Life, as I see it, is not a location, but a journey. Life flows.

It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native criminal class except Congress.

Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

A single question can be more influential than a thousand statements.

He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again.

We want to reproduce all those instruments which were prepared and used in America once upon a time.