The best of us must sometimes eat our words. - J.K. Rowling

"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."

"We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already."

"I don't believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book."

"The mind is not a book, to be opened at will and examined at leisure."

"Is 'fat' really the worst thing a human being can be? Is 'fat' worse than 'vindictive', 'jealous', 'shallow', 'vain', 'boring' or 'cruel'? Not to me."