Vot is the point of being an international Quidditch player if all the good-looking girls are taken?

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.

Those who move forward with a happy spirit will find that things always work out.

The early summer sky was the color of cat vomit. Of course, Tally thought, you’d have to feed your cat only salmon-flavored cat food for a while, to get the pinks right.

Really, for a man who had been out of practice for so many years it was a splendid laugh!

If I had a hammer, there'd be no more folksingers.

Insofar as I'm good at directing, it's because I've become a writer.

I feel as if sometimes women can't deal with what's going on and they have no one around who actually understands.

We need to renegotiate our contract with nature. Ecology is a unifying force that can diminish intolerance and expand our empathy towards others - both human and animal.

It turns out that our notions of what a 'self' is and how it might feel fulfilled have no more objective status than most of the rest of reality. It seems we make ourselves up as we go along.

I used to work at The International House of Pancakes. It was a dream, and I made it happen.

Memory is so corrupt that you remember only what you want to; if you want to forget about something, slowly but surely you do.