You look in excellent health to me, Potter, so you will excuse me if I don't let you off homework today. I assure you that if you do die, you need not hand it in.

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.

Quality is the best business plan.

May night continue to fall upon the orchestra

The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.

Praise doesn't mean anything to me. I don't judge myself.

A sexy picture can come from anyone who forms an intimacy with their subject. You can take a sexy picture of your cat if you want to.

Today each composer is not only involved in aesthetics, but he's actually trying to create his own language.

I'll never forgive myself if we don't go all the way tonight.

I realized that everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving ground for new writers and new ideas.

Look around at day-to-day life for ideas, and it finds its way into your work.

People in New York love having roof parties.