Others made you into who you were. You made yourself into what you have become.

If the road is easy, you're likely going the wrong way.

The Wizard's First Rule: People are stupid; given proper motivation almost anyone will believe almost anything.

Knowledge is a weapon. I intend to be formidably armed.

We reap a reward merely in the act of helping others. We never know how, or if, that reward will come back to us. Helping is the reward; none other is needed nor better.

Once you place that crown of liar on your head, you can take it off again, but it leaves a stain for all time.

Charity, if you have the means, is a personal choice, but charity which is expected or compelled is simply a polite word for slavery.

Knowing when to fight is just as important as knowing how.

When the whole world is crazy, it doesn't pay to be sane.

Fate occasionally touches us all in ways we don't always understand.

The light of a new day always chases the shadows of the night away, and shows us that the shape of our fears is only the ghost of our own minds.

No one has truly become successful on life without having to organize his life.

I am not concerned about results. The only thing I am concerned about is the process. How you tried to achieve something matters more than what you achieved.

You can't say it wasn't interesting.

Tell Albus - tell Albus Severus - I'm proud he carries my name.

We have to not just open our eyes to what's going on in other places; we need to open our eyes to what's going on right in front of us.

Some tools of thought are so blunt that they are almost useless; others are so sharp that they are dangerous. But the wise man will have the use of both kinds.

Better be secure under one king, than exposed to violence from twenty millions of monarchs, though oneself be one of them.

The notion that somehow you're going to have freedom just kind of outbreak in Cuba, I think is false.

Boko Haram will soon know the strength of our collective will.

I was interested in cross-pollinating the two. I thought there was something lovely in the little vignette forms. I wanted to explore that.