Whenever he was in company he wanted to get away, and whenever he was alone he wanted company.

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.

Knowledge grows exponentially. The more we know, the greater our ability to learn, and the faster we expand our knowledge base.

If you want to do something that really changes someone’s life, the best thing you can do is make the person you’re trying to help a participant in the process.

I am burning within with an immeasurable, indescribable endless joy of life.

We can serve humanity with our divine passions and gifted skills.

All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.

Love is the spirit that motivates the artist's journey.

I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask: "Mother, what was war?"

Love ... is a sacred fire that must not be burnt to idols.

Words are the mind's wings, are they not?

Once you have kids, you think like a parent. You get a lot more protective.