Famous Harry Potter, " said Malfoy. "Can't even go to a bookshop without making the front page.

It is not our abilities that show what we truly are. It is our choices.

Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.

Honestly, if you were any slower, you’d be going backward.

You will also find that help will always be given at Hogwarts to those who ask for it.

So Dobby stopped us from getting on the train and broke your arm. . . ." He shook his head. "You know what, Harry? If he doesn't stop trying to save your life he's going to kill you.

Do I look stupid?" snarled Uncle Vernon, a bit of fried egg dangling from his bushy mustache.

Ron: Why spiders? Why couldn't it be "follow the butterflies?

Of all the trees we could've hit, we had to get one that hits back.

Oh well... I'd just been thinking, if you had died, you'd have been welcome to share my toilet.

Lockhart'll sign anything if it stands still long enough.

Make a Goal Box, a chart of positive daily contact with a family when you are working with them.

People tend to read books about a guy who goes back in time or a guy who is living under a pier.

No religion except ours has taught that man is born in sin; none of the philosophical sects has admitted it; none therefore has spoken the truth

My mother, Evelyn, was an actress and singer, and my father, Jack, was an actor. My earliest recollection of my father is being taken to see him in a matinee.

In the darkest days, the Lord puts the best people into your life." (p. 28)

One reason I love the Kindle, more so than the iPad, is that on the Kindle you can't do anything else but read. It's the best, because it does the least. It doesn't even show a clock.

People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of.

Tools and techniques ought to be an extension of consciousness, but they can just as easily be a protection from consciousness. Then the tools become defence mechanisms... against the unconscious.

The contradictory, consuming, contested relationship between detail and whole, event an eventuality, breathes fire and wisdom in every great work of art.

We need to help younger people recognize their own capacity to do good, and help them discover the rewards of generosity.