Extraordinary imagination, especially in a witch world. Also friendship.

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.

For an optimist, life is full of opportunity. For a pessimist, life is full of adversity. Life is what you think of it.

I appreciate your thinking on me, marshal, but ain’t no trouble of his what ain’t trouble of mine, too.

Beautiful enough to lure in prey, he said. Strong enough to clamp down and destroy, he said.

I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar

They are distinct enough that our crude instruments can pick up the differences, yet both are healthy instances of that staggeringly improbable, exquisitely engineered system we call a human being.

If we must part forever, Give me but one kind word to think uponand please myself with, while my heart's breaking.

The gaping wound in America’s national security is without a doubt, the unregulated dragnet surveillance capitalists.

That's how I like to do it with actors, have them really go for it and I'll tell them when it's too much. It's always easier to bring it back then to push it further.

By the time I finished comedy, I was really burnt out of it. I had had enough. I don't really have a strong desire to prove myself in that area, or to go back to it in any great way.

When we read the right book generously, it can change the way think about the world around us.