The hippogriff took off into the air. . . . He and his rider became smaller and smaller as Harry gazed after them . . . then a cloud drifted across the moon. . . . They were gone.

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.

Eating crappy food isn't a reward -- it's a punishment.

Your thoughts, beliefs, and interpretations initiate and largely determine how you experience your reality.

I can't get very far away from Christianity, I can't get very far away from the angels and the saints. I work them in always, in some way.

Give everyone a chance to have a piece of the pie. If the pie's not big enough, make a bigger pie.

I don't think about better. You just want it to work. You want it to work and you have your guide with the script. You want it to exist and complete.

I think being able to identify with young people and...their capacity to change the world and shake things up. I think that's the greatest strength.

That's how I believed relationships worked: You go into town, pick up the girl you want, then ride off into the mountains and the townsfolk can't get them back.

Ethics is inescapable.

The body is the soul's poor house or home, whose ribs the laths are and whose flesh the loam.

Turkey was fantastic, Turkey was like mystical and such a special place. Just unique, something that's really hard to describe, such beauty.