Another ten points from Gryffindor,” said Snape. “I would expect nothing more sophisticated from you, Ronald Weasley, the boy so solid he cannot Apparate half an inch across a room.

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.

Oh, God! That bread should be so dear, And flesh and blood so cheap!

The ' pleasure' of being drunk is obviously the pleasure of escaping from the responsibility of Consciousness.

Aviation records don't fall until someone is willing to mortgage the present for the future.

Well, you can tell by the way I use my walk, I'm a woman's man: no time to talk.

...Francis Galton, founder of the eugenics (master race) movement which continues today under the heading of 'population control'.

One circumstance tormented me then: Namely, that no one else was like me, and I was like no one else. I am only one, and they are all.

No, I can never rely on Tim to make me pretty.

I know Italians and I like them. A lot of my father's best friends were Italians.

The life which is not examined is not worth living.

Whatever is cheap became cheap by treating us badly in the past, but is priced to deliver superior returns.