The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution. -J. K. Rowling Truth
It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends. -J. K. Rowling Courage
Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young. -J. K. Rowling Men
'Harry Potter' gave me back self respect. Harry gave me a job to do that I loved more than anything else. -J. K. Rowling Respect
The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes good writing and it will enlarge your vocabulary. -J. K. Rowling Good
Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared. -J. K. Rowling Power
I'm interested in that drive, that rush to judgment, that is so prevalent in our society. We all know that pleasurable rush that comes from condemning, and in the short term it's quite a satisfying thing to do, isn't it? -J. K. Rowling Society
I don't read 'chick lit,' fantasy or science fiction but I'll give any book a chance if it's lying there and I've got half an hour to kill. -J. K. Rowling Chance
His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof. -J. K. Rowling Knowledge
Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me. -J. K. Rowling Failure
If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals. -J. K. Rowling Equality
Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace or pleasure in the way that I throw myself into prose. -J. K. Rowling Poetry
Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me. -J. K. Rowling Work
Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates. -J. K. Rowling Intelligence
However my parents - both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension. -J. K. Rowling Imagination
It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends. -J. K. Rowling Great
Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home. -J. K. Rowling Home
Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools. -J. K. Rowling Fear
