Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue not a companion in vice.

Politicians are not born; they are excreted.

Poor is the nation that has no heroes, but poorer still is the nation that having heroes, fails to remember and honor them.

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.

Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goest out. The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead.

We learn nothing from history except that we learn nothing from history.

It is not enough to acquire wisdom, it is necessary to employ it.

Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.

Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

Writing is the only art form where a good number of the artists make a slice of their living criticizing one another in print, in public.

Culture is the constant constraint that controls creativity, commitment, collaboration, and cohesion.

Truth be told, loneliness had seeped into her bones with the passing of time until it had become her normal way of life.

Yes, but the world isn't split into good people and Death Eaters, ' said Sirius with a wry smile.

Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization.

I'm quite good at switching off and sometimes I forget who I am in a character.

I like a lot of soul, but I also put a lot of folk into what I do.

What did the earth teach the trees? How to speak to the sky.

Leap of faith – yes, but only after reflection

People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.