Taunting Death ... means pitting oneself against a wily enemy who cannot lose.

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.

There is no shame in ignorance before a higher power but there is shame in arrogance.

He'd been told that women were sensitive about such things, as if a scar could somehow ruin their beauty, but scars were just stories told in flesh...

That's rather a broad idea, " I remarked. "One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature, " he answered.

..no meal is good enough to justify all the money and effort wasted in preparing it. It is an illusion and an expense. Live as I do, undeceived.

Unanimity makes me itchy. It almost always hides a grave. I started digging.

I say luck is when an opportunity comes along and you're prepared for it.

If you fall, I will catch you. I will be waiting, time after time.

A man of genius is unbearable, unless he possesses at least two things besides: gratitude and purity.

If I reprehend anything in this world, it is the use of my oracular tongue, and a nice derangement of epitaphs!

Musicians can travel all over the world and have an audience, because there's no language barrier.