Sword? Haven't got a sword. That boy has, though. He'll lend you one.

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.

Your real personality identity is not an option, it is the foundation for your happiness and health.

You’re the kind of girl who deserves way more than a one-night stand.

Any pitcher who throws at a batter and deliberately tries to hit him is a Communist.

If you believe that all men are created equal, then a child's death in some other country is no less tragic than in the United States.

My memories pale as I prevail upon them again and again. They become more and more ghostly. I fear nothing so much as losing them altogether and having only my blank endless mind to live in.

The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears.

My father's religious life was not Biblically centered. He was a saintly man, whom I could never emulate, so I went into scholarship rather than into the kind of pastoral activity that he pursued.

Love is no ingredient in a merely speculative faith, but it is the life and soul of a practical faith.

I don't believe in monogamy, possessing people, the rightness or inevitability of jealousy.

I am disappointed, but I am realistic too. When you put your defense back on the field repeatedly, the offense needs to do its job and the defense needs to get itself off the field.