I heart J.K. Rowling like whoa...no, make that like Whoa.

On 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 that enables us to empathise with humans whose experiences we have never shared."

On humans:

"Unlike any other creature on this planet, humans can learn and understand, without having experienced. They can think themselves into other people’s minds, imagine themselves into other people’s places."

"They can refuse to hear screams or to peer inside cages; they can close their minds and hearts to any suffering that does not touch them personally; they can refuse to know."

On Life:

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

I can't even respond to this because I am so deep in my own thought. Also, it would sound like garbage compared to Rowling's eloquence. Everyone should read the speech she delivered at Harvard's commencement. Let's just say, I wish she had been the speaker at my graduation this year. Though, I would have sobbed. And Desmond Tutu and the 26th Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church did speak in Sewanee that weekend, so I can't complain that much. But still, imagination and magic AND Amnesty International...I would have had an academic orgasm.