Aunt Petunia often said that Dudley looked like a baby angel — Harry often said that Dudley looked like a pig in a wig.

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.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.

A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

He has a traditional shopper's DNA, an eye for freshness and appearance, and a consistent sense of a home to go back to.

Shadows of the world made shadows of the heart much deeper.

The atheism and nihilism of my earlier years now seems shallow, and even a bit cocky.

True generosity is too frequently eaten up by prosperity and riches.

Humans do not engage in activities that are meaningless. If you think you see people doing things you find meaningless, look again and try to understand what the activities mean for them.

No one in their right mind can say to me with a straight face that the Patriot Act has not aggregated the Fourth Amendment.

Every aspect of personal life is radically affected by the quality of general life, and yet the general life is seen at its most important in completely personal terms.

What is said upon a subject is gathered from an hundred people.