Harry was just thinking that all he needed was for Dumbledore's pet bird to die while he was all alone in the office with it, when the bird burst into flames.

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.

Every change, those subtle-slow, and those drastically sudden, has brought me into myself.

One of the great things about doing series television is the guest actors that you can have come on and play around with.

The positives of retiring outweighed the positives of returning and my desire to still play.

War is mankind's most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men.

In discussing Barbarism and Christianity I have actually been discussing the Fall of Rome.

All I see in the mirror every morning is a face that needs washing.

Cut off from direct experience, cut off from our own feelings and sometimes our own sensations, we are only too ready to adopt a viewpoint or perspective that is handed to us, and is not our own.

Don't ask others to forgive in you a sin they're dying to commit themselves.

Ah, Fist, it’s the curse of history that those who should read them, never do.

Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.