That's chess!" snapped Ron. "You've got to make some sacrifices!

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

Longbottom, if brains were gold, you'd be poorer than Weasley, and that's saying something.

As much money and life as you could want! The two things most human beings would choose above all - the trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them.

Honestly, woman, you call yourself our mother?

Everybody finished the song at different times. At last, only the Weasley twins were left singing along to a very slow funeral march.

Welcome to a new year at Hogwarts! Before we begin our banquet, I would like to say a few words. And here they are: Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak!

There is no good and evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it.

To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever.

Or yet in wise old Ravenclaw, if you've a ready mind, Where those of wit and learning, Will always find their kind.

One can never have enough socks

Nature deemed God worthy and hence chose it as her slave to serve the humans appearing as the master.

Pleasure! The end of suffering or the beginning of an enjoyment?

I am not afraid. ... I was born to do this.

I think unknowing is the most important theological idea for me. Unlearning the things you think you know.

One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.

When I first started I was always known as The Girl on the Sitcom with the Funny Voice.

I stared at him, unable to believe this was happening. That he could just disappear, along with everything rich and strange he’d brought into my life. Vanished, like magic.

I suppose I should make a little apology to Cyndi - although I'm not taking the blame for this - because I was the one who did say Cyndi had won.

There are few truths in an uncertain world, but here's one; this aint Kentucky!