Words worth keeping

This is your life and its ending one moment at a time.

If you are allergic to a thing, it is best not to put that thing in your mouth, particularly if the thing is cats.

People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed.

The thing about growing up with Fred and George," said Ginny thoughtfully, "is that you sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.

Treat everyone with politeness and kindness, not because they are nice, but because you are.

Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.

Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.

Start each day with a positive thought and a grateful heart.

Believe in Your HeartBelieve in your heart that you're meant to live a life full of passion, purpose, magic and miracles.

That was the thing. You never got used to it, the idea of someone being gone. Just when you think it's reconciled, accepted, someone points it out to you, and it just hits you all over again, that shocking.

Both Rowling and Meyer, they’re speaking directly to young people. … The real difference is that Jo Rowling is a terrific writer and Stephenie Meyer can’t write worth a darn. She’s not very good.

Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real.

A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.

Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.

If you have two friends in your lifetime, you're lucky. If you have one good friend, you're more than lucky.