You have to be free to fail in this world.

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.

The diagnosis is clear, but changing the status quo has proven difficult, because often those who are elected do not govern, and those who do govern are not elected.

I'm working on my life story. I'm not decided if it's going to be a musical or a movie with music in it.

True knowledge is knowledge of why things are as they are, and not merely what they are.

I spent my entire time reading books and going to the cinema, just to escape.

At first I was iridescent, then I became transparent, finally I was absent

Play is as necessary to the perfect development of a child as sunshine is to the perfect development of a plant.

I just love dogs, and there really is no better companion than an animal.

Why does she have wings?' So she can fly.

How beautiful is sorrow when it is dressed by virgin innocence! it makes felicity in others seem deformed.

There cannot be a surer proof of low origin, or of an innate meanness of disposition, than to be always talking and thinking of being genteel.