The hook-nosed teacher looked past Quirrell’s turban straight into Harry’s eyes — and a sharp, hot pain shot across the scar on Harry’s forehead.

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.

You have to understand yourself before you can understand anything else.

In general, ' Voss replied, 'it is necessary to communicate without knowledge of the language.

Today in Sri Lanka, Pope Francis visited a Buddhist temple. When asked why, the Pope said, 'Just keeping my options open. It's a dicey job market. You never know.'

The way politics divides the world is into friend and enemy

The most realistic blood I've seen is when Marlon Brando gets beat up in On The Waterfront.

Come my little one, and give me your hand.

Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore.

I see it happen in uniracial congregations all the time. But people - when they're in mixed company, we speak differently.

For a while she considered being ill, but she changed her mind.

A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they're not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they're not so bad.