the world isn't split into good people and Death Eaters

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.

To be human is to be broken and broken is its own kind of beautiful.

To his surprise he...discovered that it was possible to be good at what you had little interest in, just as it had been possible to be bad at something…that you cared about a great deal.

Fox taught me how to sing and dance

This is a very difficult assignment for the United States, to hang in there and help this young democracy survive.

The comic, more than the tragic, because it ignites hope, leads to more, not less, participation in the struggle for a just world.

I was not allowed a physical lover. Falling in love with Love was the best I could get.

I think that the Iraqi ground defenses shot down dozens of missiles. We are in the process of counting all these missiles quickly

When I walk out on the street, I want to see everybody wearing my clothes.

I remember I was like five or six years old; I played the devil. That was my first role.

Bailing out people who made ill-advised mortgages makes no more sense that bailing out people who lost their life savings in Las Vegas casinos.