I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full and scratch where it itches.

The opportunity was too perfect to miss. Harry crept silently around behind Malfoy, Crabbe, and Goyle, bent down, and scooped a large handful of mud out of the path.'We were just talking about your friend Hagrid,'Malfoy said to Ron. 'Just trying to imagine what he's saying to the Committee for the Disposal of Dangerous Creatures. D'you think he'll cry when they cut off his hippogriff's-'SPLAT.Malfoy's head jerked back as the mud hit him; his silverblond hair was suddenly dripping in muck.

J.K. Rowling

I love sports, as all Bostonians seem to. I love books and movies, as all writers seem to.

William Landay

My advice is very simple: if you can win a small battle, it gives you confidence in the political process to take on bigger battles, and so it is very much a bottom-up grass-roots way of doing politics.

David Miliband

You can have the best technology in the world, but if you don't have a community who wants to use it and who are excited about it, then it has no purpose.

Chris Hughes

A vocabulary of truth and simplicity will be of service throughout your life

Winston Churchill

I noted that people are happy here in India. When I went back home, people had everything in the materialistic sense and were surrounded with abundance, but they were not happy.

Goldie Hawn

The proper method of philosophy consists in clearly conceiving the insoluble problems in all their insolubility and then in simply contemplating them, fixedly and tirelessly, year after year, without any hope, patiently waiting.

Simone Weil

The sentimentalist ages far more quickly than the person who loves his work and enjoys new challenges.

Lillie Langtry

Better be quarrelling than lonesome.

Proverb

Let us be grateful to Adam, our benefactor. He cut us out of the blessing of idleness and won for us the curse of labor.

Mark Twain

Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.

Alexander Pope

Europeans say they are proud of their social fabric, of strong rights for workers and the weak in society.

David Korten