Get not your friends by bare compliments but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

Falling down is not a failure. Failure comes when you stay where you have fallen.

When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.

The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

Awareness of ignorance is the beginning of wisdom.

There is no possession more valuable than a good and faithful friend.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

If you want to be wrong then follow the masses.

I am a Citizen of the World, and my Nationality is Goodwill.

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.

A life that is actually lived is one that is with significance.

War, my friends, is a thing of beauty.

There is no such thing as a great man of God, only weak, pitiful, faithless men of a great and merciful God.

In this Music [the singing of the angels in harmony] the World was begun; for Iluvatar made visible the song of the Ainur,and they beheld it as a light in the darkness.

The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.

If you don't think you're hurt, then you aren't

...I am much better now at ambiguities.

A lot of my colleagues actually yell and curse at each other. I don't do that.