J. K. Rowling

The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.

J. K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, 1997)

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

J. K. Rowling (Harvard Commencement Speech, 2008)

We must try not to sink beneath our anguish, Harry, but battle on.

J. K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, 2005)