We can't choose our fate, but we can choose others. Be careful in knowing that.

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.

Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.

My Head of House said I lacked certain necessary qualities...like the ability to behave myself.

Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.

You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.

You can't give a Dementor the old one-two!

One more lesson like that and I might just do a Weasley.

October extinguished itself in a rush of howling winds and driving rain and November arrived, cold as frozen iron, with hard frosts every morning and icy drafts that bit at exposed hands and faces.

Time is Galleons, little brother.

You're the one who is weak. You will never know love or friendship. And I feel sorry for you.

We're under some gross misconception that we're a good species, going somewhere important, and that at the last minute we'll correct our errors and God will smile on us. It's delusion.

If you're going to play the game [politics] properly, you'd better know every rule.

I feel vulnerable in a good way. When I talk about my family, I usually have happy tears.

If people want to believe in this god, or that god, that's fine by me, believe away.

The hand opens to the word, opens to distance.

Why should you have to atone for making big movies?

Focus your attention on the top of your neck. Take that energy and transmit it in two lines to your hands. Then from the hands, bounce that energy right back to the heart center and ground it.

I called Clay from the SUV. "How'd it go at the paper?" he asked. "She called me perky." "Ouch.

If I had my life to live over, I'd have fewer meetings and more rendezvous.

The best security for old age: respect your children.