Never try to understand the students. They hate it. They would much rather be tragically misunderstood, wallow in self-pity, stew in their own —”“That’s enough, Phineas, ” said Dumbledore.

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.

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

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.

Even the tallest trees always begin as a seed.

A moment in heaven and a lifetime in hell, that’s the story of my life.

Men create the gods after their own images.

I think the hardest thing to do in the world, show-business-wise, is write comedy.

The only people who try to tell you that you can’t do something, are the people who have failed

You don't have to move on to let go.

Focus on the core problem your business solves & put out lots of content & enthusiasm, & ideas about how to solve that problem.

Colors in painting are as allurements for persuading the eyes, as the sweetness of meter is in poetry.

The Britain I love works with its friends and neighbours it doesn't walk away from them.

Man can now fly in the air like a bird, swim under the ocean like a fish, he can burrow into the ground like a mole. Now if only he could walk the earth like a man, this would be paradise.