We don't need magic to change the world.

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.

Don't take too much comfort in the fact that you're successful today because tomorrow could bring failure. There's no surety in life.

Civil disobedience is not accepted by religion and the state does not accept it and there are many verses in the Holy Book that talk of following the ruler.

He needed to exist only in the present, without guilt, without expectation.

If you give up freedom to get security, you deserve neither.

We try very quickly to show that we are not at war with the Iraqi people. We're trying to deal with the people who are indeed themselves at war with the Iraqi people.

You have a problem with allowing someone to finish speaking.

I would much rather be known as the mother of a great son than the author of a great book or the painter of a great masterpiece.

I started acting when I was 5, and it was always a part of my life. My life and acting weren't separate things; they were always one.

Concepts are vindicated by the constant accrual of data and independent verification of data. No prize, not even a Nobel Prize, can make something true that is not true.

All but blind In his chambered hole Gropes for worms The four-clawed Mole.