Or yet in wise old Ravenclaw, if you've a ready mind, Where those of wit and learning, Will always find their kind.

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.

One can never have enough socks

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

A large oak tree is just a little nut that refused to give up.

If you only do what you want to do, you won't get there.

The less versatile you are, the better you have to be at what you do well.

When a soldier of the night's watch dies they say, "And now his watch is over." That's what they say when a comedian dies. They go, "And now his tour is done."

Schools attempt to take credit for what occurs naturally, and blame others for the negative consequences of institutionalization.

If Jesus was here, do you think Jesus would show me any love? Do you think Jesus would love me?

There is a raging tiger inside every man whom God put on this earth. Every man worthy of the respect of his children spends his life building inside himself a cage to pen that tiger in.

We must live more simply so that the poor may simply live.

I love the idea of messing around with different mediums.

Be yourself and your readers will follow you anywhere. Try to commit an act of writing and they will jump overboard to get away.