Dudley thought for a moment. It looked like hard work.

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

Longbottom, if brains were gold, you'd be poorer than Weasley, and that's saying something.

As much money and life as you could want! The two things most human beings would choose above all - the trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them.

Honestly, woman, you call yourself our mother?

Everybody finished the song at different times. At last, only the Weasley twins were left singing along to a very slow funeral march.

Welcome to a new year at Hogwarts! Before we begin our banquet, I would like to say a few words. And here they are: Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak!

There is no good and evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it.

To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever.

Or yet in wise old Ravenclaw, if you've a ready mind, Where those of wit and learning, Will always find their kind.

One can never have enough socks

Significance is about making a difference, and its pursuit should ideally come before the pursuit of success – or at least at the same time.

Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.

I'm very happy and lonely single old man - and bitter.

This here song might offend some, if it does it's because your dumb.

He provides a vision. He often reminds countries of their responsibilities in a way that makes it seem not only like a legal obligation but a moral responsibility.

We're not sane enough yet to enter space until we learn to live together in peace on Earth.

All artists as a type seem to suffer a great deal, but then so do miners.

When the prizes fall to the lot of the wicked, you will not find many who are virtuous for virtue's sake.

[Perfection] is only possible if the mind of man is changed, if he, of his own sweet will, changes his mind; and the great difficulty is, neither can he force his own mind.

The unsuccessful strugglers against tyranny have been the chief martyrs of treason laws in all countries.