Wands are only as powerful as the wizards who use them. Some wizards just like to boast that theirs are bigger and better than other people's.

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.

and yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.

Be willing to be unliked and ridiculed in order to speak the words of the One who matters most.

Error often is to be preferred to indecision.

Some praise at morning what they blame at night, but always think the last opinion right.

White people get nervous and speed things up. You don't have to be in a hurry because you ain't got nothing to gain and you ain't got nothin' to lose. And that's where the groove lies.

I think English people were a lot better at breakdancing than they were at making records.

Take a deep breath, pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start all over again.

A government is the only vessel that leaks from the top.

From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the priest.

India is the Saudi Arabia of 21st century.