Be suspicious of your sincerity when you are the advocate of that upon which your livelihood depends.

The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is

Women are aristocrats, and it is always the mother who makes us feel that we belong to the better sort.

Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind.

We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us.

As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape.

Dislike of another's opinions and beliefs neither justifies our own nor makes us more certain of them: and to transfer the repugnance to the person himself is a mark of a vulgar mind.

Your faith is what you believe, not what you know.

What we love to do we find time to do.

Those who believe in our ability do more than stimulate us. They create for us an atmosphere in which it becomes easier to succeed.

When we have not the strength or the courage to grasp a new truth, we persuade ourselves that it is not a truth at all.

When you take a solemn oath your heart and soul listens, then perception of consciousness and unity comes.

Emotional intelligence marks one’s ability to perceive, understand, control, and evaluate his or her emotions.

I would tell them that when you look at a person, you never know what the're hiding.

You're a survivor because every day you make a choice not to be governed by their harsh words or actions. No one has the right to take away your happiness

That brain of mine is something more than merely mortal, as time will show.

Courage is soldiers fighting on the front line, or people living on the bread line.

We all carry it within us: supreme strength, the fullness of wisdom, unquenchable joy. It is never thwarted, and cannot be destroyed.

Snape's patronus was a doe,' said Harry, 'the same as my mother's because he loved her for nearly all of his life, from when they were children.

There were the phone calls and Elvis had asked me to visit him in Los Angeles. This was in 1962.

Being old is such a treat!