I close my eyes, thinking that there is nothing like an embrace after an absence, nothing like fitting my face into the curve of his shoulder and filling my lungs with the scent of him.

Children being children, however, the grotesque Hopping Pot had taken hold of their imaginations. The solution was to jettison the pro-Muggle moral but keep the warty cauldron, so by the middle of the sixteenth century a different version of the tale was in wide circulation among wizarding families. In the revised story, the Hopping Pot protects an innocent wizard from his torch-bearing, pitchfork-toting neighbours by chasing them away from the wizard's cottage, catching them and swallowing them whole.

J.K. Rowling

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

Lao Tzu

The sum of the inner movements which a man finds easy and as a consequence performs gracefully and with pleasure, one calls his soul; if these inner movements are plainly difficult and an effort for him, he is considered soulless.

Friedrich Nietzsche

If the terrorists have the sympathy of people, it's much harder to find them. So we need people on our side, and that leads us to be responsible leaders of the world, show some concern with the problems.

George Soros

Climb the day, Drop your dreams, Possess the day.

Gail Carson Levine

Phantasie ist wichtiger als Wissen, denn Wissen ist begrenzt.

Albert Einstein

I mean, why am I considered an 'it girl?' Because I'm in a lot of movies right now or am on the covers of magazines? I just hope there is something solid behind that. Because here's the thing with 'it girl' status. It's great and amazing that anybody is saying that at all. But how long does that last?

Amanda Seyfried

If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.

Les Brown

There is in the act of preparing, the moment you start caring.

Sir Winston Churchill

I tour alone. There's no sound check, no back up. I stay with the hosts I am in a family home and it's really nourishing. I just have to remember after the show not to run out into the living room in my pyjamas. Every day, it's a new relationship being built. It's odd and wonderful.

Jane Siberry

As we grow oldthe beauty steals inward.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are conditions for development.

Kofi Annan