With how many things are we on the brink of becoming acquainted, if cowardice or carelessness did not restrain our inquiries.
In many, many ways. . . Hufflepuff is my favorite house.
To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever.
He didn't realize that love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves its own mark.
If you choose to use your status and influence to raise your voice on behalf of those who have no voice; if you choose to identify not only with the powerful, but with the powerless; if you retain the ability to imagine yourself into the lives of those who do not have your advantages, then it will not only be your proud families who celebrate your existence, but thousands and millions of people whose reality you have helped transform for the better. We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.
Get up, you useless lump, get up!
Read a lot. Reading really helps. Read anything you can get your hands on.
Do as you would be done by, is the surest method of pleasing.
When you do your best and live out your dreams, you inspire others to do the same.
Beauty is the promise of happiness.
Most working days I can be at my desk for nine hours a day.