A Horcrux is the complete opposite of a human being.

What's life without a little risk?

It is not our abilities that show what we truly are. It is our choices.

We've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are.

Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.

It is our choices... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.

The world is full of wonderful things you haven't seen yet. Don't ever give up on the chance of seeing them.

There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction; the moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.

Gryffindor, where dwell the brave at heart!

Twilight fell: The sky turned to a light, dusky purple littered with tiny silver stars.

Sitting and looking at obstacles gives you nothing but dark circles. Stride for solutions.

Remember that rabbit-proof fencing you told me about? You get that at a hardware store or is it special order?

History is for human self-knowledge…the only clue to what man can do is what man has done. The value of history, then, is that it teaches us what man has done and thus what man is.

If you did not do so for the sake of riches,You must have done so for the sake of novelty.

I tend to be emotional when... I breathe.

No pleasure is simpler, no luxury cheaper, no consciousness-altering substance more benign.

Whether or not Saddam is implicated directly in the anthrax attacks or the horrors of September 11, he is, by any common definition, a terrorist who must be removed.

All the old houses that I knew when I was a child were full of books, bought generation after generation by members of the family. Nobody told you to read this or not to read that.

It was not as easy to commit suicide as to contemplate it.

A man must first despise himself, and then others will despise him.