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.

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.

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.

He saw that it was an ironical thing for him to be running thus toward that which he had been at such pains to avoid.

Our dreams take us into other worlds, alternative realities that help us make sense of day-to-day realities.

I am only an average man but by George I work harder at it than the average man.

I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.

If there is horror, it is for those who speak indifferently of the next war. If there is hate, it is for hateful qualities, not nations. If there is love, it is because this alone kept me alive.

A persuadable temper might sometimes be as much in favour of happiness as a very resolute character.

The unnatural, that too is natural.

Every family in America knows they have to do a budget. Every small business in America knows they have to do a budget. Every local government, every state, knows they have to do a budget.

A soul, therefore, when deprived of the Word of God, is given up unarmed to the devil for destruction

Basically, I learned to read by reading 'Peanuts,' just wanting to know what they were saying.