"I do get recognized, but I must say Edinburgh is a fantastic city to live if you're well-known. There is an innate respect for privacy in Edinburgh people, and I also think they're used to seeing me walking around, so I don't think I'm a very big deal."

"'Harry Potter' gave me back self respect. Harry gave me a job to do that I loved more than anything else."

"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."

"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."

"Before machines the only form of entertainment people really had was relationships."

"Transcendental meditation is like a car, a vehicle that allows you to go within. It's a mental technique."

"Though all society is founded on intolerance, all improvement is founded on tolerance."

"A society in which there are high levels of voluntary activity will simply be a better, happier place than one where there are not."