Now you say you want change
But if you don’t change yourself
You have no right to complain

A million tomorrows for one yesterday, that’s what I’d gladly pay. A mountain of sorrows now stands in my way, a mountain I foolishly made.

Your adherence to antiquated ideals is not as admirable as they’d like you to believe

I’m not brave. I’m actually pretty scared a lot of the time. But I must like being scared because I keep doing things that scare me.

Almost every nation claims concern only for peace but, mistrusting other nations, arms itself in self-defense. The result is a world that has been spending $2 billion per day on arms and armies while hundreds of millions die of malnutrition and untreated disease.

If it isn’t apparent what you should do next, perhaps you should thank your lucky stars that you have escaped ambition for a moment and sit down with a glass of wine.

Those who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those doing it

The problem with youth is that it is wasted on the young

People like to think themselves superior and that if they can pride themselves in nothing else they can pride themselves on perceived purity….The Potter books in general are a prolonged argument for tolerance, a prolonged plea for an end to bigotry, and I think it’s one of the reasons that some people don’t like the books, but I think that it’s a very healthy message to pass on to younger people that you should question authority and you should not assume that the establishment or the press tells you all of the truth.

If you want everything, you’ll end up with nothing