Bigotry is probably the thing I detest most.

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.

A person may only touch one person's heart.A rainbow touches many.

Not all mysteries are meant to be solved. Not all secrets are meant to be told.

Wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then.

I've never known a man to be beaten fairly, nor one to be elected, unfairly.

Most successful businesses in the country were started on a kitchen table. As long as people have needs unmet or problems unsolved, there are business opportunities.

My trouble is insomnia. If I had always slept properly, I'd never have written a line.

... we never do any thing well, unless we love it for its own sake.

A touchstone to determine the actual worth of an "intellectual" - find out how he feels about astrology.

We lay it down as a fundamental, that laws, to be just, must give a reciprocation of right; that, without this, they are mere arbitrary rules of conduct, founded in force, and not in conscience.