J.K. Rowling: "The consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed."

What matters most is not rewards, praise or pride. What matters most is that at the end of the day, you tried.

Know who you are. Know what you want. Know what you deserve. And don’t settle for less.

Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.