Perhaps just one more, Master Harry, for luck?

What's life without a little risk?

It is not our abilities that show what we truly are. It is our choices.

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.

Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.

It is our choices... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.

The world is full of wonderful things you haven't seen yet. Don't ever give up on the chance of seeing them.

There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction; the moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.

Gryffindor, where dwell the brave at heart!

Twilight fell: The sky turned to a light, dusky purple littered with tiny silver stars.

Conscience gets a lot of credit that belongs to cold feet.

My definition of a redundancy is an air-bag in a politician's car.

The only thing we know about the future is that it will be faster changing and more unpredictable than the present.

The day you change your responses is the day your life will begin to get better.

I like the 'Cirque du Freak' books - 'Tunnel of Blood' by Darren Shan. They're set in England. It's about vampires.

The very first discovery of beauty strikes the mind with an inward joy, and spreads a cheerfulness and delight through all its faculties.

The fact that my songs take a long time to write is no guarantee of their excellence.

True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.

Science Fiction has rivets, fantasy has trees.

A moral choice in its basic terms appears to be a choice that favors survival: a choice made in favor of life.