Where is Wood?" said Harry, suddenly realizing he wasn't there. "Still in the showers," said Fred. "We think he's trying to drown himself.

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.

A ray of light made a rainbow through the mist. [His] words had given her a small glimmer of hope — the kind of hope she thought had disappeared from her life forever.

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.- Aristotle (Attributed by Seneca in Moral Essays, "De Tranquillitate Animi" On Tranquility of Mind, sct. 17, subsct. 10.)

I will say this about being an optimist: even when things don't turn out well you are certain they will get better.

The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail.

Back then every small town had a gym, and if itseated more than 2,000 then we'd be interested in playing in it.

The winner ain't the one with the fastest car. It's the one who refuses to lose.

Boundless in your charity, but shrewd and cautious as a lender, you delight all those today whom you made beggars the day before.

I want to always do things that are very current and pushing the boundaries of the way we create art.

Actors and preachers are people who stand up on stage and have no problem talking and they have no problem saying, "Listen to me. Follow me. I know what I'm talking about."

What we have got to do now is use this event, the resignation of the whole commission, to drive through root and branch reform.