Any fool can do something cool and look cool, but it takes skill to make something uncool cool again.

The presence of hundreds of books had finally convinced Hermione that what they were doing was right.

It is likely to make us think we are not caged. We cannot feel the bars unless we push against them.

If we thought more for ourselves we would have very many more bad books and very many more good ones.

Being popular or not, having company or being alone, are not issues of concern for the developed soul.

Be an independent thinker at all times, and ignore anyone who attempts to define you in a limiting way.

The 'will to power and independence' has become so ubiquitous that it is now considered normal.

Most people spend their lives vulnerable, relying on the rest of the world to not take advantage of it.

The truly strong person is not the one who never needs help, but the one who can ask for it when he does

Anxiety, and the physical symptoms it causes, is merely fog along the path of independence and discovery.

Those who choose differently must suffer the consequences. They must take the pain their decisions bring.

no girl can permanently bolster up a lame-duck visitor, because these day it's every girl for herself.

I don't want to have to earn love by giving up my ability to make decisions that determine how I live.

Keep your problems to yourself, if its too much for you, kill it slowly till it disappears from your life.

Make sure that the your remote control always lies with your own self and not in someone else's hands.