Hogwarts was the first and best home he had known. He and Voldemort and Snape, the abandoned boys, had all found home here.

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.

If your creation is taking 99% perspiration, it stinks and you need more inspiration.

One of the nicest things is that I still get, very ambiguously, people saying to me, "Oh, I'm just reading your book." And I say, "Which one, for God's sake, I've done six now!" "Oceans of Sound".

Nobody will ever notice that. Filmmaking is not about the tiny details. It's about the big picture.

We are just entering what may be called, 'the field of vibrations', a field in which we may find more wonders than the mind can conceive of

They tell us that plants are not like man immortal, but are perishable-soul -less. I think that is something that we know exactly nothing about.

I've not been right for any man or myself since I met you.

If there's one thing that a study of history has taught us, it is that things can always get worse.

I loved cutting together simple commercials about margarine or soft drinks - all kinds of silly products - but I tried to make the commercials different.

No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet everyone thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades, that of government.

Oh yes, you can kick me And you can punch me And you can break my face But you won't change the way i feel 'cause i love you