There. Maybe if you're lucky, you'll get a scar! That's what you want, isn't it?

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.

...throw roses into the abyss and say: 'here is my thanks to the monster who didn't succeed in swallowing me alive.

If quick, I survive.If not quick, I am lost.This is "death.

Honour to Agamemnon is a thing / That he can pick, pick up, put back, pick up again, / A somesuch you might find beneath your bed.

My own tastes happen to be in tune with what the public wants. I think that's the reason my batting average is so high, not because I've discovered some brilliant formula.

Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.

By reading we discover our world, our history, and ourselves.

It's fun to be a little bit different in the world, to make a few new trails of your own.

A child who dies from hunger is a murdered child.

What you call love does not sound very beautiful.

I just downloaded eleven hundred books onto my Kindle, and now I can’t lift it.