Prof McGonagall : ... bravery doesn't forgive stupidity. ...

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.

The state of no being knows neither pleasure nor pain.

I promise, when you always expect the worst, you will not be disappointed.

I like mainstream movies that are completely off the wall.

We don't become geisha because we want our lives to be happy; we become geisha because we have no choice.

I always know where the scissors are.

Elinor could sit still no longer. She almost ran out of the room, and as soon as the door was closed, burst into tears of joy, which at first she thought would never cease.

A child may have to be snatched with roughness away from a fire so that he shall not be burnt.

The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

To reflect on the essence of the Creator ... is forbidden to the human intellect because of the severance of all relation between the two existences.

There can be no high civility without a deep morality, though it may not always call itself by that name.