Seremos fortes na medida em que ficarmos unidos, frágeis na medida em que tivermos dúvidas… o dom de espalhar discórdia e inimizade é muito grande... podemos combatê-lo demonstrando um laço de amizade e confiança igualmente fortes.

A felicidade se encontra até nos momentos mais escuros, se somos capazes de usar bem a luz.

São as nossas escolhas as que melhor definem o que somos, muito mais que nossas habilidades.

Não é bom deixar-se levar pelos sonhos e se esquecer de viver.

Não tenha pena dos mortos, mas sim dos vivos, ainda mais daqueles que vivem sem amor.

Há muitos tipos de valentia. É preciso muita coragem para lutar contra nossos inimigos, mas é preciso o mesmo valor para fazer o mesmo com os amigos.

Para uma mente bem preparada, a morte é apenas a próxima grande aventura.

É chegada a hora de escolher entre o que é fácil e o que é certo.

O amor é uma força mais linda e terrível que a morte.

Perceba que não importa como nascemos, mas o que somos!

A única coisa que dá medo quando nos aproximamos da morte ou da escuridão é o desconhecido.

Claro que isso acontece na sua cabeça, Harry, mas por que isso significa que não é real?

Chame-o de Voldemort, Harry. Use sempre o nome correto das coisas. O medo de um nome aumenta o medo da coisa que tem esse nome.

Os jovens não podem saber como pensam nem como se sentem os idosos, mas nós, idosos, temos culpa se esquecemos o que significa ser jovem.

A verdade é uma coisa terrível e linda, e, portanto, deve ser tratada com muito cuidado.

Sua incapacidade de compreender que há coisas muito piores que a morte sempre foi sua maior fraqueza.

As pessoas acham mais fácil perdoar os outros quando erram do que quando acertam.

A compreensão é o primeiro passo para a aceitação, e somente aceitando se pode melhorar.

Todo o dinheiro e a vida que uma pessoa possa desejar! As coisas que a maioria das pessoas escolheriam... O problema é que os humanos têm o dom de escolher exatamente as piores coisas para eles.

As consequências de nossas ações são sempre tão complicadas, tão diversas, que prever o futuro é uma coisa muito difícil.

I started collecting aerial photographs of Native American and South Pacific architecture; only the African ones were fractal. And if you think about it, all these different societies have different geometric design themes that they use. So Native Americans use a combination of circular symmetry and fourfold symmetry.

The most memorable interviews for me are folks whose names I don't know: young civil rights leaders in the South, showing great courage as they walked into a town in the dark of night. A doctor working for 'Doctors Without Borders' in Somalia, operating by kerosene light in a tent. Those are the kinds of people that linger in your memory.

My original aim after 'The X Factor' was to earn enough money in a year to make the whole experience worth it - you know, buy a car, a flat.

Each time I free a child, I feel it is something closer to God.

My idea of a good night out is staying in.

If you are doing well, your business will pay more in tax; if you're not doing well, you pay less.

I do what I've trained my whole life to do. I watch the ball. I keep my eye on the ball. I never stop watching. I watch it as it sails past me and lands in the catcher's mitt, a perfect and glorious strike three.

Memories are like a garden. Regularly tend the pleasant blossoms and remove the invasive weeds.

If people work together in an open way with porous boundaries - that is, if they listen to each other and really talk to each other - then they are bound to trade ideas that are mutual to each other and be influenced by each other. That mutual influence and open system of working creates collaboration.

The apparatus has to serve our improbability and improvisation. Being good and playing the songs is not enough.

If we are lucky, and George W. Bush is right, we are about to witness the War of the Happy Iraqis.

Never forget 3 people In your life: 1. Who HELPED you in bad situation, 2. Who LEFT you in bad situation, 3. Who PUT you in bad situation.

I like kisses that aren't too fast or rushed - that's what makes a good kiss.

Anybody who gives away money is mostly looking at things where they think they can make a difference. I'm trying to help people who helped me, educational institutions that helped me with scholarships, or organizations that were very useful to me in growing up.

Perhaps believing in good design is like believing in God, it makes you an optimist.

When I was younger, I wasn't concentrating on good days. I was managing a career and trying to have a good year. It would always 'lead' to something, which never leads to anything except death, where everything leads to. And then as I got older, and then I had my kids and everything, I began to appreciate a great Wednesday.

Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt.

I have the strange ability to shut things out.

The main impetus for being a writer is thinking, 'I could invent another world. I'm not terribly keen on this one.'

It is extraordinarily difficult, even in academia, to find a job that will let you do whatever you want with your time. If you are determined to spend your time following your own interests, you pretty much have to do it on your own.

There's nothing funnier than the human animal.

In fact, if you have a crime committed against you, and you go to have hypnosis, you can't testify. Because there's no way to test what is real, what's fact, what's fantasy.

I found myself serving a sentence of public denial from the very second the raid on my apartment happened.

William Trevor is an author I admire; his stories are subtle and powerful, and beautifully written.