"Dumbledore says people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince)

"Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike."
— J.K. Rowling

"It is a curious thing, Harry, but perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it. Those who, like you, have leadership thrust upon them, and take up the mantle because they must, and find to their own surprise that they wear it well."
— J.K. Rowling

"It is our choices, Harry, that show us who we truly are, far more than our abilities."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets)

"Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban)

"It takes much bravery to stand up to our enemies but we need as much bravery to stand up to our friends."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone)

"The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should be treated with caution."
— J.K. Rowling

"Just because you have the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean we all have."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix)

"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."
— J.K. Rowling

"As strong as we are united. As weak as we are divided."
— J.K. Rowling

"Wit beyond measure is a man's greatest treasure."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix)

"We've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix)

"It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince)

"Harry was left to ponder in silence the depths to which girls would sink to get revenge."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince)

"The only way out is through."
— J.K. Rowling

"There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other, and knocking out a twelve-foot mountain troll is one of them."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone)

"What would come, would come...and you would have to meet it,when it did."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire)

"Ron," said Hermione in a dignified voice, "you are the most insensitive wart I have ever had the misfortune to meet."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix)

"They’re evacuating the younger kids and everyone’s meeting in the Great Hall to get organized... We’re fighting."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows)

""Constant vigilance!""
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire)

"Always remember, your focus determines your reality."
— George Lucas

""May The Force Be With You""
— Star Wars

"Do or do not. There is no try.
- Yoda"
— Star Wars

"Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering."
— Yoda

"Love doesn't lead to the dark side. Passion can lead to rage and fear, and can be controlled, but passion is not the same thing as love. Controlling your passions while being in love, that's what they should teach you to beware, but love itself will save, not condemn you."
— Jolee Bindo

"I'm not a warrior, I'm a soldier. There's a difference. Warriors attack and conquer, they prey on the weak. Soldiers defend and protect the innocent—usually from warriors."
— Carth Onasi

"Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy."
— F. Scott Fitzgerald

"In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. (Mr. Dumby, Act III)"
— Oscar Wilde (Lady Windemere's Fan)

"There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it."
— George Bernard Shaw

"Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot."
— Charlie Chaplin

"When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways--either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength."
— Dalai Lama XIV

"Always be comic in a tragedy. What the deuce else can you do?"
— G.K. Chesterton (The Man Who Was Thursday, Large-Print Edition)

"Nothing captures human interest more than human tragedy."
— Dan Brown (Angels & Demons)

"The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals. "
— Edward Abbey

"To love another person is to see the face of God."
— Victor Hugo (Les Misérables)

"The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves."
— Victor Hugo

"The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in. Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only."
— Victor Hugo (Les Misérables)

"No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come."
— Victor Hugo

"To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life."
— Victor Hugo (Les Misérables)

"People do not lack strength, they lack will."
— Victor Hugo

"You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it."
— Victor Hugo

"Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise."
— Victor Hugo (Les Misérables)

"When love has fused and mingled two beings in a sacred and angelic unity, the secret of life has been discovered so far as they are concerned; they are no longer anything more than the two boundaries of the same destiny; they are no longer anything but the two wings of the same spirit. Love, soar."
— Victor Hugo (Les Misérables)

"It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live."
— Victor Hugo (Les Misérables)

"It was SHE. Whoever has loved knows all the radiant meaning contained in the three letters of this word ‘she.’"
— Victor Hugo (Les Misérables)