Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.

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

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

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

Positioning is not what you do to a product. Positioning is what you do to the mind of the prospect.

Only cowards push a button from thousands of miles away, or tens of thousands of feet up, to kill people who can't possibly fight back.

Love's secret is always to be doing things for God, and not to mind because they are such very little ones.

I'm not really a model.

Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.

Before, baseball was something to do to get ready for the hockey season. Now, people look to play baseball, period. It's something you stick with.

I very much like people. I don't much like writers who don't.

Because judges may not issue advisory opinions, judicial nominees may not do so either, especially on issues likely to come before the court. That rule has always been honored.

I came down the long road, even before I got here. Just to be where I am today is already a positive in my life. But to have something like this happen to me as well, I'm speechless.

Doubt, fear and regret are the three villains of success. If you close the door on the first two, you will never have to worry about meeting the third.