IT'S NOT CARDS YOU ARE DEALT, BUT HOW YOU PLAY THE GAME!

[He] used to be so insignificant that one literally felt alone in his presence.

To hear them laugh was to hear that everything was all right, but to see them laugh was to see otherwise

I would tell 17-year-olds to be proud of who you are. Don't try to change yourself for others. Focus on school and your future. Boys and friends will come and go, just focus on you and your future.

No client ever had money enough to bribe my conscience or to stop its utterance against wrong, and oppression.

If you do it properly, life is art, really.

Are you planning to follow a career in Magical Law, Miss Granger?” asked Scrimgeour. “No, I’m not,” retorted Hermione. “I’m hoping to do some good in the world!

I feel like a teenager myself, so I appreciate it when the kids think you're all right.

Men like war: they do not hold much sway over birth, so they make up for it with death. Unlike women, men menstruate by shedding other people's blood.

We should not be less than what we are.

The forgotten man... He works, he votes, generally he prays, but his chief business in life is to pay.