We touch other people's lives simply by existing.

Failure is not fun. It can be awful. But living so cautiously that you never fail is worse.

Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.

He was slumped in the back, gazing out of the window, as though his parents were two people who had picked him up hitchhiking, connected to him merely by chance and proximity.

I've often met people who are terrified, you know, in a straight jacket of their own making because they'd rather do anything that fail. They don't want to try for fear of failing.

Someone's dead," said Malfoy, and his voice seemed to go up an octave as he said it. "One of your people...I don't know who, it was dark...I stepped over the body...I was supposed to be waiting up here when you got back, only your Phoenix lot got in the way.

Tut, tut — fame clearly isn't everything.