Words worth keeping

When I was your age, television was called books.

The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.

From childhood's hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not awaken. My heart to joy at the same tone. And all I loved, I loved alone.

There are two means of refuge from the misery of life — music and cats.

It gives me strength to have somebody to fight for; I can never fight for myself, but, for others, I can kill.

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

Ginny!" said Mr. Weasley, flabbergasted. "Haven't I taught you anything? What have I always told you? Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain?

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,And all the sweet serenity of books

I am always saying "Glad to've met you" to somebody I'm not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff, though.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

[D]on't ever apologise to an author for buying something in paperback, or taking it out from a library (that's what they're there for. Use your library). Don't apologise to this author for buying books second hand, or getting them from bookcrossing or borrowing a friend's copy. What's important to me is that people read the books and enjoy them, and that, at some point in there, the book was bought by someone. And that people who like things, tell other people. The most important thing is that people read...

The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people.

You can make anything by writing.

There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.

You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.