My Head of House said I lacked certain necessary qualities...like the ability to behave myself.

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.

Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.

Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.

You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.

You can't give a Dementor the old one-two!

One more lesson like that and I might just do a Weasley.

October extinguished itself in a rush of howling winds and driving rain and November arrived, cold as frozen iron, with hard frosts every morning and icy drafts that bit at exposed hands and faces.

Time is Galleons, little brother.

You're the one who is weak. You will never know love or friendship. And I feel sorry for you.

In the end, it mattered not that you could not close your mind. It was your heart that saved you.

Remember, the most common thing about common sense is how uncommon it is.

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

Treasure, that is what you are

When you stand and share your story in an empowering way, your story will heal you and your story will heal somebody else.

There is rough work to be done, and rough men must do it; there is gentle work to be done, and gentlemen must do it.

The less a statesman amounts to, the more he loves the flag.

Only I discern Infinite passion, and the pain Of finite hearts that yearn.

To be sympathetic without discrimination is so very debilitating.

A misbehaving child, is a discouraged child

Men are likely to be quite generous, especially financially.