Professor Flitwick had dried himself off and set Seamus lines ("I am a wizard not a baboon brandishing a stick")

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.

Except for a few guitar chords, everything I've learned in my life that is of any value I've learned from women.

I was a typical kid. I dug holes in the yard, threw rocks, had plum battles with the neighbours and used trash can lids as shields. I was always outside getting dirty.

My faith, inasmuch as I have any, is more like a kind of Joseph Campbell thing, and even that frequently finds itself tested to oblivion in siren waters.

Remember that nobodies are the new somebodies.

Be prepared and be honest.

He who knows does not speak. He who speaks does not know.

It's a hard process to navigate... to figure out where your kid ought to go to college.

Only fools are positive.

If I were in the Beatles, I'd be a good George Harrison.

I feel as fit as a bull moose.