We Slytherins are brave, yes, but not stupid. For instance, given the choice, we will always choose to save our own necks.

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.

Art is the greatest opportunity to admire the human mind!

The actual lifespan of a thought is very short…unless you believe it, trust it, or take direction from it.. Then it can last a lifetime. Be choosy. Pick the ones with which to do this.

I forgive you," I said. I said what I had to. I would die by pieces to save myself from real death.

I want to be the coolest aunt in the entire world.

We forced Richard Nixon and the Congress who established, and thanks to your leadership, we supported you and we got the Environmental Protection Act and Agency.

The good teachers are bailing out. Education is very important.... This should be the centerpiece on the table of Texas.

Life, Lady Stutfield, is simply a mauvais quart d'heure made up of exquisite moments.

It seems just possible that a poem might happen to a very young man: but a poem is not poetry -That is a life.

When you say you're doing an opera, it's like when you're a seven-year-old and say, 'I'm off to Washington, Dad.' You kind of go, 'Sure. Sure you are, son.'

I wonder now how tough you have to be to get big things done.