The consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed.

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.

Bad memories were hard enough, but it was torture to be haunted by the good.

I feel like crying. There's something so sad about broken concrete.

My days are as long as despair can make them.

It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.

Circumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself.

Einstein said that "the most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious." So why do so many of us try to explain the beauty of music, thus depriving it of its mystery?

If the people of Comic-Con ruled the world...then tomorrow would be invented every day.

I don't know what kind of swag I'd get if I were extra Irish. It would just be, like, extra potatoes. Or like a free pint of Guinness.

Man's unique agony as a species consists in his perpetual conflict between the desire to stand out and the need to blend in.

I was a relationship retard. I kicked, shoved, and punched people out of my life, so they never had a chance to hurt me.