Dawn seemed to follow midnight with indecent haste.

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.

Wisdom : balance between survival, principles and emotions.

Our capacity can grow or diminish, and either way, the results compound over time.

Self importance is pride of a soul.

All I’m saying is that I don’t want to sort of fall in love with fifty different people. I’d rather find one person and fall completely, deeply in over my head.

I believe when we look different and carry something different, people are going to see that and want it too.

I used to despair about the condition of the world, to feel a sense of hopelessness; now I find more and more that I need to focus on what I can do, however little it is, to help others.

Try to discover who I am from my choice of words and colors, as attentive people like yourselves might examine footprints to catch a thief.

I doubt if anything learnt at school is of more value than great literature learnt by heart.

What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us.

Earlier in my career, I was really tight, really together, and knew who I was and I was confident. I kind of feel in between now.