To the birds and trees he talks: Caesar of his leafy Rome, There the poet is at home.
All motion is cyclic. It circulates to the limits of its possibilities and then returns to its starting point.
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out.
Our subconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes and cannot tell the difference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What we continually think about eventually will manifest in our lives.
Everything in God's store is on the bottom shelf. . . you have to get on your knees to get it.
Control your thoughts and you control your circumstance.
In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time. [But you must know enough to realise this, lest you focus more on the defeat than finding the lesson you paid for with the defeat. With every defeat and mistake, you have the logical right to get excited about the future when you will understand and be able to apply the lessons and thereby turn defeat and temporary failure into victory and permanent success. ]
Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow.
I enjoy what I'm able to give my family.
Maybe a man in a million could unite the Hallows, Harry. I was fit only to possess the meanest of them, the least extraordinary. I was fit to own the Elder Wand, and not to boast of it, and not to kill with it. I was permitted to tame and to use it, because I took it, not for gain, but to save others from it.
Now I'm sixty-one. . . sixty-two, pretty soon. It's a really interesting age. Now we have women of your age, and coming up, and all these fantastic writers, who have managed to have their children but continue with their art, their work. I think women are doing the most interesting writing right now, the most interesting art. I see everything through this lens, of women finally taking their place in the world. Their true place. And it's very, very exciting to me.