“So why in the name of Merlin’s saggy left —” “Don’t talk to your mother like that.”

“You will find that I will only truly have left this school when none here are loyal to me.”

“Great, tell me when you've defeated Voldemort for me, will you?”

“Depression is the most unpleasant thing I have ever experienced. . . . It is that absence of being able to envisage that you will ever be cheerful again. The absence of hope. That very deadened feeling, which is so very different from feeling sad. Sad hurts but it's a healthy feeling. It is a necessary thing to feel. Depression is very different.”

“I really feel that we're not giving children enough credit for distinguishing what's right and what's wrong. I, for one, devoured fairy tales as a little girl. I certainly didn't believe that kissing frogs would lead me to a prince, or that eating a mysterious apple would poison me, or that with the magical "Bibbity-Bobbity-Boo" I would get a beautiful dress and a pumpkin carriage. I also don't believe that looking in a mirror and saying "Candyman, Candyman, Candyman" will make some awful serial killer come after me. I believe that many children recognize Harry Potter for what it is, fantasy literature. I'm sure there will always be some that take it too far, but that's the case with everything. I believe it's much better to engage in dialog with children to explain the difference between fantasy and reality. Then they are better equipped to deal with people who might have taken it too far.”

“Would it hurt to die?”

“Swish and flick.”

“I wish...I wish I were dead...” “And what use would that be to anyone?”

“Killing is not so easy as the innocent believe.”

“I am sorry too," said Lupin. "Sorry I will never know [my son]... but he will know why I died and I hope he will understand I was trying to make a world in which he could live a happier life.”

“The best of us must sometimes eat our words.”

“One of Henry Ford’s most outstanding qualities is his habit of reaching decisions quickly and definitely, and changing them slowly.”

“five per cent who were succeeding had formed the habit of systematic saving of money,”

“Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.”

“One comes to believe whatever one repeats to one’s self, whether the statement be true or false.”

“Find out what you really love to do, and then find a way to make a good living doing it.”

“Before success comes in any man's life, he is sure to meet with much temporary defeat, and, perhaps, some failure.”

“Those who reach decisions promptly and definitely, know what they want, and generally get it.”

“an intangible impulse of thought can be transmuted into material rewards”

“You cannot enjoy outstanding success in life without power, and you can never enjoy power without sufficient personality to influence other people to cooperate with you in a spirit of harmony.”

“My complaint is not against the work that the churches have done, but the work that they could have done through leadership that was based upon the principle of co-ordinated, co-operative effort which would have carried civilization at least a thousand years ahead of where it is today. It is not yet too late for such leadership.”

“Success comes only when you act on what you know and believe. What your mind can conceive and believe, you can achieve!”

“Somewhere in your make-up (perhaps in the cells of your brain) there lies sleeping, the seed of achievement which, if aroused and put into action, would carry you to heights, such as you may never have hoped to attain.”