Well, wouldn't it have been easier if she'd just asked me whether I liked her better than you?" "Girls don't often ask questions like that," said Hermione. "Well, they should!" said Harry forcefully.

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.

Holy words, Holy faith.

Getting married early is like wrestling with calculus on a merry trip to Las Vegas!

There remains a natural career progression even though the tougher job climate seeks to delay it.

Ambition is not everything.""No. Not everything, but it's something. Something important, if you ask me.

As we become the distant past, you become a future few of us would have imagined.

When you work with people who misunderstand you, instead of getting transmissions, you get transmutations, and that's much more interesting in the long run.

The world laughs at things it would really prefer to admire, and like Aesop's fox it criticizes things it covets.

I grew up in a fun-loving environment - you work hard and play hard.

I could not be happy with a man whose taste did not in every point coincide with my own. He must enter in all my feelings; the same books, the same music must charm us both.

Action not backed by knowledge and knowledge not translatable into action, both can not stand the test of time.