J. K. Rowling

If you seek the removal of freedoms from an opponent simply on the grounds that they have offended you, you have crossed a line to stand alongside tyrants who imprison, torture and kill on exactly the same justifications.

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all-in which case, you fail by default.

What’s to be ashamed of? I went through a really rough time, and I am quite proud that I got out of that.

Sad hurts but it’s a healthy feeling. It is a necessary thing to feel. Depression is very different.

Ah music… a magic beyond all we do here!

We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already. We have the power to imagine better.

Everything in life is luck.

80 Percent of the constraints, the factors that are holding you back from achieving your goals, are internal.

You’ll find out that nothing that comes easy is worth a dime. As a matter of fact, I never saw a football player make a tackle with a smile on his face. Never.

I only work with the best.

Your biggest risk isn’t failing, it’s getting too comfortable.

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.

Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.

The most effective way to do it, is to do it.

Inspiration is for amateurs. I just get to work.

I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.

The successful business executive can handle challenges and solve problems at a remarkable clip.

You will have failures in your life, but it is what you do during those valleys that will determine the heights of your peaks.

When you get into a ‘tight’place and everything goes against you, until it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, it is then when you should never give up, for that is just the place and time when the tide will turn.

You don’t have to be a fantastic hero to do certain things to compete. You can just be an ordinary person, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals.

For all the hard times and tough challenges I faced during different periods of my life, I think I was lucky or blessed or both. When things looked bleak, a good guide would appear to set me straight. Someone once asked me about the villains who got in my way, the bad guys who wanted to trip me up or take me out. I don’t remember any. Maybe it’s my nature to remember the good and forget the bad, or maybe it’s my destiny to lock onto the righteous for help.