I felt I had to solve everyone's problems.

Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.

If you love something - and there are things that I love - you do want more and more and more of it, but that's not the way to produce good work.

If only the hat had mentioned a house for people who felt a bit queasy, that would have been the one for him.

You're a prefect? Oh Ronnie! That's everyone in the family!" "What are Fred and I? Next door neighbors?

Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.

As much money and life as you could want! The two things most human beings would choose above all - the trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them.