Yeah, Quirrell was a great teacher. There was just that minor drawback of him having Lord Voldemort sticking out of the back of his head!

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.

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

The world might be going up in flames, but we have to carry on as normal

Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long intricate intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.

Wars and rumours of wars.

Milton took vaudeville, which, if you look up 'vaudeville' in the dictionary, right alongside of it, it says 'Milton Berle' - and he made it just a tremendous party.

Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.

Sleep is a little death, dreams the whisperings of the Other, who would drag us all into his eternal night.

If we want to kill Obamacare and we want to end socialized medicine, it must be done in the next election!

I come from a family of losers, and I've rejected my family as something I don't want to be like.

The military has no constant form, just as water has no constant shape - adapt as you face the enemy, without letting them know beforehand what you are going to do.