Holey? You have the the whole world of ear-related humor before you, you go for holey?

We're all human, aren't we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.

Here lies Dobby, a free elf.

Hogwarts is threatened!” shouted Professor McGonagall. “Man the boundaries, protect us, do your duty to our school!

Fred and George turned to each other and said together, “Wow — we’re identical!

We’re all going to keep fighting, Harry. You know that?

So that's little Scorpious. Make sure you beat him in every test, Rosie. Thank god you've inherited your mother's brains.

We did it, we bashed them wee Potter's the one, and Voldy's gone moldy, so now let's have fun!

He can run faster than Severus Snape confronted with shampoo.

Autumn seemed to arrive suddenly that year. The morning of the first September was crisp and golden as an apple.

How in the name of Merlin's pants have you managed to get your hands on those Horcrux books?

I was the silent and ever present figure in your life...but you.” I kissed the back of her hand softly and closed my eyes. "You've always been the meaning of mine.

You are educated. Yourcertification is in yourdegree. You may think ofit as the ticket to the goodlife. Let me ask you to think of analternative. Think of it as yourticket to change the world.

Intelligence, Kant reminds, is not so much a result of genius, rather it is a consequence of a determination to use it.

Once you have some yes's in your life, the no's are not that bad.

The only incontrovertible fact of my work is the importance of life.

Error held as truth has much the effect of truth. In politics and religion this fact upsets many confident predictions.

There is no significant idea which cannot be explained to an intelligent twelve year old boy in fifteen minutes.

Every man is bound to leave a story better than he found it.

Education-whether its object be children or adults, individuals or an entire people-consists in creating motives.

I open each class with an explanation of the singular importance of being a "dealmaker." The manifesto of the dealmaker is simple: Reality is negotiable.