Famous Quotes

"She seems so cool, so focused, so quiet, yet her eyes remain fixed upon the horizon. You think you know all there is to know about her immediately upon meeting her, but everything you think you know is wrong. Passion flows through her like a river of blood. She only looked away for a moment, and the mask slipped, and you fell. All your tomorrows start here."

"If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito."

"I meant what I said and I said what I meant. An elephant's faithful one-hundred percent!"

"May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house."

"When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book."

"Remember, darkness does not always equate to evil, just as light does not always bring good."

"Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself."

"No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it."

"There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one."

"Try a little harder to be a little better."

"When people don't express themselves, they die one piece at a time."

"The important thing to you is not how many years in your life, but how much life in your years!"

"What's the good of living if you don't try a few things?"

"You should never be surprised when someone treats you with respect, you should expect it."

"We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special."

"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any."

"Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there."

"The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because its only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on. If you can change the way people think. The way they see themselves. The way they see the world. You can change the way people live their lives. That's the only lasting thing you can create."

"‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats."

"Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery."

"It was, he thought, the difference between being dragged into the arena to face a battle to the death and walking into the arena with your head held high. Some people, perhaps, would say that there was little to choose between the two ways, but Dumbledore knew - and so do I, thought Harry, with a rush of fierce pride, and so did my parents - that there was all the difference in the world."

"What makes the desert beautiful,' said the little prince, 'is that somewhere it hides a well..."