What happened down in the dungeons between you and Professor Quirrell is a complete secret, so, naturally the whole school knows.

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.

Beauty is only skin deep but evil cuts straight through the soul.

Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

As an elderly man, I have remained estranged from the society here.

Never would I have thought that I would meet Mick Jagger, much less be working on the same project.

What can you take from me which is not already yours?

I think I have come across as "unafraid" because I really cannot control what comes through me in my writing.

Let anger's fire be slow to burn.

I am never going to get divorced, and that's that.

It is the business of a general to be quiet and thus ensure secrecy; upright and just, and thus maintain order.

An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.