The best of life is always ahead, always further along.
Touch me again, and it will be your last act in life - Blue Eyes.
Sometimes, as much as writing saves one’s own life, you cannot imagine how it will save another’s. This is another reason why it is important to do the work, over and over again. It is food, the kind a soul needs.
Better to be strong than pretty and useless.
What you cannot escape, you must fight; what you cannot fight, you must endure.
Christophe, with the careful tone of an adult telling a kid not to pet the nice foaming-rabid pooch.
People don’t really want to know anything about you. They just want you to fit into their little predetermined slots. They decide what you are in the first two seconds, and they only get nervous or upset if you don’t live up to their snap judgments.
If God has made your cup sweet, drink it with grace; if He has made it bitter, drink it in communion with Him.
Technology is not about tools, it deals with how Man works.
Hedwig didn't return until the end of the Easter holidays. Percy's letter was enclosed in a package of Easter eggs that Mrs. Weasley had sent. Both Harry's and Ron's were the size of dragon eggs, and full of home-made toffee. Hermione's, however, was smaller than a chicken's egg. Her face fell when she saw it. "Your mum doesn't read Witch's Weekly, by any chance, does she, Ron?" she asked quietly. "Yeah," said Ron, whose mouth was full of toffee. "Gets it for the recipes. " Hermione looked sadly at her tiny egg.
All science is either physics or stamp collecting.