Plenty poisoned minds of the people are ours. Slaves, from mental death.
Dobby has no master. Dobby is a free elf!
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.
After years of piecemeal reform the current welfare system is complex and unfair.
Do not seek to change what has come before. Seek to create that which has not
Geniuses are commonly believed to excel other men in their power of sustained attention. . . But it is their genius making them attentive, not their attention making geniuses of them.
I was so wild and crazy and dumb in my car. It didn't run but 30 miles an hour. You made do.