"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
— Thomas A. Edison

"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. "
— Thomas A. Edison

"Five percent of the people think;
ten percent of the people think they think; and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think."
— Thomas A. Edison

"Genius is 1 percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration."
— Thomas A. Edison

"Negative results are just what I want. They’re just as valuable to me as positive results. I can never find the thing that does the job best until I find the ones that don’t."
— Thomas A. Edison

"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read."
— Groucho Marx (The Essential Groucho)

"The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four people is suffering from a mental illness. Look at your 3 best friends. If they're ok, then it's you."
— Rita Mae Brown

"When you're in jail, a good friend will be trying to bail you out. A best friend will be in the cell next to you saying, 'Damn, that was fun'."
— Groucho Marx

"He was my mum and dad's best friend. He's a convicted murderer, but he's broken out of wizard prison and he's on the run. He likes to keep in touch with me, though...keep up with news...check if I'm happy..."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire)

"Nobody loves me, nobody cares,
Nobody picks me peaches and pears.
Nobody offers me candy and Cokes,
Nobody listens and laughs at me jokes.
Nobody helps when I get into a fight,
Nobody does all my homework at night.
Nobody misses me,
Nobody cries,
Nobody thinks I'm a wonderful guy.
So, if you ask me who's my best friend, in a whiz,
I'll stand up and tell you NOBODY is!
But yesterday night I got quite a scare
I woke up and Nobody just WASN'T there!
I called out and reached for Nobody's hand,
In the darkness where Nobody usually stands,
Then I poked through the house, in each cranny and nook,
But I found SOMEBODY each place that I looked.
I seached till I'm tired, and now with the dawn,
There's no doubt about it-
NOBODY'S GONE!!"
— Shel Silverstein

"'Ginny listen...I can't be involved with you anymore. We've got to stop seeing each other. We can't be together.'
'It's for some stupid noble reason isn't it?'
'It's been like...like something out of someone else's life these last few weeks with you. But I can't...we can't...I've got to do thigs alone now. Voldemort uses people his enemies are close to. He'salready used you as bait once, and that was just because you were my best friend's sister. Think how much danger you'll be in if we keep this up. He'll know, he'll find out. He'll try and get me through you.'
'What if I don't care?'
'I care. How do you think I'd feel if this was your funeral...and it was my fault...'"
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince)

"Someone told me the delightful story of the crusader who put a chastity belt on his wife and gave the key to his best friend for safekeeping, in case of his death. He had ridden only a few miles away when his friend, riding hard, caught up with him, saying 'You gave me the wrong key!'"
— Anaïs Nin

"A good friend will help you up when you fall. A best friend will laugh and try to trip you again.
- I'm not sure"
— Tamora Pierce (The Immortals)

"By the way, my name's Rose Hathaway. I'm seventeen years old, training to protect and kill vampires, in love with a completely unsuitable guy, and have a best friend whose weird magic could drive her crazy.
Hey, no one said high school was easy. "
— Richelle Mead (Frostbite (Vampire Academy, #2))

"From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend on reading it."
— Groucho Marx

"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book."
— Groucho Marx

"I sent the club a wire stating, "PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I DON'T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT ME AS A MEMBER"."
— Groucho Marx (Groucho and Me)

"Those are my principles, and if you don't like them...well I have others."
— Groucho Marx

"One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas, How he got in my pajamas I'll never know."
— Groucho Marx

"Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, and I'm going to be happy in it."
— Groucho Marx

"Blessed are the cracked, for they shall let in the light. "
— Groucho Marx

"Why, look at me. I've worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty."
— Groucho Marx

"The trouble with writing a book about yourself is that you can’t fool around. If you write about someone else, you can stretch the truth from here to Finland. If you write about yourself the slightest deviation makes you realize instantly that there may be honor among thieves, but you are just a dirty liar."
— Groucho Marx

"However long the night...
Dawn WILL break

"
— African proverb

"Dawn was breaking over the horizon, shell pink and faintly gold..."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows)

"“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, And that enables you to laugh at life's realities. You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own.
And you know what you know. You are the guy who'll decide where to go. All alone!
Whether you like it or not,
alone is something you'll
be quite a lot. I'm afraid sometimes
you'll play lonely games too,
games you can't win
because you'll play against you. You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.""
— Dr. Seuss

"I ment what I said I said what I ment an elephants faithful 100%"
— Dr. Suess

""A persons a perso no matter how small"
-Horton
Horton Hears A who

"
— Dr.Suess

"The more that you read,
the more things you will know.
The more that you learn,
the more places you’ll go."
— Dr. Suess

"Dont cry because its over smile because it happened"
— dr. suess

"You have brains in your head.
Feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself
any direction you choose."
— Dr. Suess

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.
"
— Dr. Suess

"Catch! calls the Once-ler.
He lets something fall.
It's a Truffula Seed.
It's the last one of all!
You're in charge of the last of the Truffula Seeds.
And Truffula Trees are what everyone needs.
Plant a new Truffula. Treat it with care.
Give it clean water. And feed it fresh air.
Grow a forest. Protect it from axes that hack.
Then the Lorax
and all of his friends
may come back."
— Dr. Seuss (The Lorax)

"I am the Lorax, I speak for the trees"
— Dr. Seuss

"Did ya get in a couple of good swipes?" Emmett asked eagerly.
"No! Of course not."
"No, not really? You really didn't attack him?"
"Emmett!" I protested.
"Aw, what a waste," Emmett groaned. "And here you're probably the one person who could take him--since he can't get in your head to cheat--and you had a perfect excuse, too." He sighed. "I've been dying to see how he'd do without that advantage."
I glared at him frostily. "I would never."
— Stephenie Meyer (Breaking Dawn)

"You’ve kept me waiting a long time, she said.

“And you ducked your head, like a good Southern gentleman, and said, ‘I’m sorry, ma’am.’” Alice laughed at the memory.

Jasper smiled down at her. “You held out your hand, and I took it without stopping to make sense of what I was doing. For the first time in almost a century, I felt hope."
— Stephenie Meyer (Eclipse)

"Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?"
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows)

"Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows)

"Albus Severus," Harry said quietly, so that nobody but Ginny could hear, and she was tactful enough to pretend to be waving to Rose, who was now on the train, "you were named for two headmasters of Hogwarts. One of them was a Slytherin and he was probably the bravest man I ever knew."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows)

"He can run faster than Severus Snape confronted with shampoo."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows)

"Cinderella? Snow White? What's that? An illness?"
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows)

"Why are they all staring?" demanded Albus as he and Rose craned around to look at the other students.

"Don’t let it worry you," said Ron. "It’s me. I’m extremely famous.""
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows)

"We did it, we bashed them wee Potter's the one, and Voldy's gone moldy, so now let's have fun!"
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows)

"'Seventeen, eh!' said Hagrid as he accepted a bucket-sized glass of wine from Fred.
'Six years to the day we met, Harry, d’yeh remember it?'
'Vaguely,' said Harry, grinning up at him. 'Didn’t you smash down the front door, give Dudley a pig’s tail, and tell me I was a wizard?'
'I forge’ the details,' Hagrid chortled."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows)

"I am sorry too," said Lupin. "Sorry I will never know [my son]... but he will know why I died and I hope he will understand I was trying to make a world in which he could live a happier life.""
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows)

"Listeners, that brings us to the end of another Potterwatch. We don’t know when it will be possible to broadcast again, but you can be sure we shall be back. Keep twiddling those dials: the next password will be ‘Mad-Eye.’ Keep each other safe. Keep faith. Good night."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows)

"But if it matters to you, you'll be able to choose Gryffindor over Slytherin. The Sorting Hat takes your choice into account."
"Really?"
"It did for me," said Harry.
He had never told any of his children that before, and he saw the wonder in Albus's face when he said it."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows)

"Autumn seemed to arrive suddenly that year. The morning of the first September was crisp and golden as an apple..."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows)

"The ministry has fallen. Scrimgeour is dead. They are coming."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows)

"Ooh, you look much tastier than Crabbe and Goyle, Harry" said Hermione, before catching sight of Ron's raised eyebrows, blushing slightly and saying "oh you know what I mean- Goyle's Potion looked like bogies.""
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows)