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

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

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

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

I decided that it wasn’t pretty that I felt, but confident.

...I always thought youth were idealists - now, I'm not so sure - I'm more idealistic now then at 17...

I've been playing the game so long that my handicap is in Roman numerals.

We react very quickly in the market. We can make quick changes.

To hit 100 miles per hour, that's something. I couldn't believe it when I first saw it, but it's something I can do and think about.

When you become a commodity to a record label because you're making them millions of dollars, you can take all of your artistic integrity and throw it out the window.

I had a Jesuit education, and I consider acting and the theater as kind of a calling - a vocation.

I never want anyone to be sitting where I'm sitting and to have lost their son, because I can never get Luke back.

The greatest thing about tomorrow is, I will be better than I am today.

I never dreamed I would receive the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, mostly because my style is so typically Austrian.