Professor,” Harry gasped. “Your bird — I couldn’t do anything — he just caught fire —

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.

Achieving a goal is not the most important part of the process. The destination should never be your primary purpose or objective.

They are the humans who are intelligent enough to have insight of every single molecular underpinning of the warmth of love, and yet not let that factual knowledge ruin the romance in a relationship.

Passion is sweeter split strand by strand. Divided and re-divided likemercury then gathered up only at the last moment.

I want you all to line up in alphabetical order according to your size.

I'm totally the 'decorate early, start listening to Christmas songs super early' guy. I've just always been that way.

Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.

Lobbying is the world's second - oldest profession.

Anything can be said and, in consequence, written about anything.

We live in our myths, we only endure reality.

We say knowledge is the basic foundation of the universe. Everything is first based on something being known.