Although people rarely died playing Quidditch, referees had been known to vanish and turn up months later in the Sahara Desert.

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.

And then he gives me a smile that just seems so genuinely sweet with just the right touch of shyness that unexpected warmth rushes through me.

We are all prisoners of circumstance at one point or another.

Usually, environmental programs are not designed for a mainstream audience.

We've mismanaged going into Iraq.

A large nose is in fact the sign of an affable man, good, courteous, witty, liberal, courageous, such as I am.

The eternal part of our being is perfect, free, always changing, always new, and completely conscious of all things.

If you're going to win the Premier League, you're going to have to finish ahead of Chelsea and Manchester City.

I'm looking for a perfume to overpower men - I'm sick of karate.

The religion of a sinner stands on two pillars; namely, what Christ did for us in the flesh, and what he performs in us by his Spirit. Most errors arise from an attempt to separate these two.

Never let them know your next move.