Reward is its own virtue.

Happiness is the ability to recognize it.

Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife, This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand years of Middle Life.

Insistent advice may develop into interference, and interference, someone has said, is the hind hoof of the devil.

I love the Christmas-tide, and yet, I notice this, each year I live; I always like the gifts I get, But how I love the gifts I give!

A guilty conscience is the mother of invention.

Actions lie louder than words.

Of two evils choose the prettier.

A blunder at the right moment is better than cleverness at the wrong time.

Nonsense makes the heart grow fonder.

Advice is one of those things it is far more blessed to give than to receive.

Oh, there you are, Albus, ' he said. 'You've been a very long time. Upset stomach?''No, I was merely reading the Muggle magazines, ' said Dumbledore. 'I do love knitting patterns.

When the officers are too strong and the common soldiers too weak, the result is COLLAPSE.

Insecurity is lack of self love. When your fountain of self love is alive, you will be one with people.

A person without a philosophy for living is at the tender mercy of other people.

Each letter has a shape, she told them, one shape in the world and no other, and it is your responsibility to make it perfect.

State control is important for the people who have always been excluded from the claims of social and economic development.

Be yourself. Play within yourself. Play your own game.

We used to have a lot of fun. We never had any problems. We always ate. The fact that we didn't have steak? Who had steak?

I am the bridge between the bleeding edge and the dead center. I stand between the Wizard of Oz and the man behind the curtain. I am the curtain.

There is no debt with so much prejudice put off as that of justice.