Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out.

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.

Positive thoughts shape a positive world.

Books are the most mannerly of companions accessible at all times in all moods frankly declaring the author's mind without offense.

When things go wrong don't go with them.

In most men there exists a poet who died young, whom the man survived.

What shall I give my children? who are poor, / Who are adjudged the leastwise of the land...

Look at that battle you are involved in; you are caught in it: you are it.

I am the sum total of what I have been confessing through the years.

Mum would have a panic attack if she had to stand up and give a speech around a table.

I'm a news junkie who's constantly reading newspapers and magazines. I look around and see what's happening in the world.

The least of the work of learning is done in classrooms.