It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might has well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.

Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.

The fridge had been emptied of all Dudley’s favorite things — fizzy drinks and cakes, chocolate bars and burgers — and filled instead with fruit and vegetables and the sorts of things that Uncle Vernon called “rabbit food.

In March several of the Mandrakes threw a loud and raucous party in greenhouse three. This made Professor Sprout very happy. “The moment they start trying to move into each other’s pots, we’ll know they’re fully mature,” she told Harry.

NO!” The scream was the more terrible because he had never expected or dreamed that Professor McGonagall could make such a sound.

Be ruthless about protecting writing days.

Well you seemed too busy to call him a prat and I thought someone should.