Is it true that you shouted at Professor Umbridge?" "Yes." "You called her a liar?" "Yes." "You told her He Who Must Not Be Named is back?" "Yes." "Have a biscuit, Potter.

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.

Most beds aren't as intimate as people think they are.

Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born.

The fact is that more people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, that my friends, is true perversion.

First of all, I didn't suggest that we should simply get rid of all prisons.

The vocation of pastor has been replaced by the strategies of religious entrepreneurs with business plans.

What America needs now is a drink.

I've always believed that if you support reform or you support a particular idea that you ought to fund that idea first and not the system.

It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us.

A guy once told me that I sound like I’m a little ahead of myself. I can’t wait to thank him at the Oscars.

Sometimes, in order to follow our moral compass and/or our hearts, we have to make unpopular decisions or stand up for what we believe in.