You're the one who is weak. You will never know love or friendship. And I feel sorry for you.

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.

In the end, it mattered not that you could not close your mind. It was your heart that saved you.

Let failure be your workshop. See it for what is is: the world walking you through a tough but necessary semester, free of tuition. (from Workbook)

Always be smarter than the people who hire you.

Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.

We cannot give our children what we don’t have.

I have a daughter, she's twenty years old.

When I'm in the mood for room service, my favorite order is a peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwich.

As recent as the year 2000 we won elections by saying we shouldn't be the policemen of the world, and that we should not be nation building. And its time we got those values back into this country.

I loved the Army as an institution and loathed every single thing it required me to do.

I think all the beer I drank in college created an iron bladder.