J. K. Rowling

Anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.

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

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.

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

Ah music… a magic beyond all we do here!

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.

Be careful not to compromise what you want most for what you want now.

Yes, it’s absolutely true that anything worth doing is worth doing poorly – until you can learn to do it well.

The more people tell you it’s not possible, that it can’t be done, the more you should be absolutely determined to prove them wrong. Treat the word ‘impossible’ as nothing more than motivation.

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared, but only men of character are trusted.

The problem with pity parties is very few people come, and those who do don’t bring presents.

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.

Luck is when preparedness meets opportunity.

Surround your mind with healthy thoughts, thoughts of faith, and not fear, and you will produce faith results instead of fear results.

Take time to be kind and to say thank you.

My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what’s really going on to be scared.

Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.

There is little you can learn from doing nothing.

The one thing coaches cannot tolerate… is the individual who grows arrogant because he excelled at a lower level and believes he has nothing else to learn.

I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.