The truth." Dumbledore sighed. "It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

Longbottom, if brains were gold, you'd be poorer than Weasley, and that's saying something.

As much money and life as you could want! The two things most human beings would choose above all - the trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them.

Honestly, woman, you call yourself our mother?

Everybody finished the song at different times. At last, only the Weasley twins were left singing along to a very slow funeral march.

Welcome to a new year at Hogwarts! Before we begin our banquet, I would like to say a few words. And here they are: Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak!

There is no good and evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it.

To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever.

Or yet in wise old Ravenclaw, if you've a ready mind, Where those of wit and learning, Will always find their kind.

One can never have enough socks

Mythology and religion are relevant and remarkable, as they each represent imaginative truths – projections of human beings innermost desires – intermixed with fragments of factual reality.

..there are two possible endings to every story.

History tells us what people do

The course of human history is determined, not by what happens in the skies, but what takes place in our hearts.

Do right. Risk the consequences.

When they teach [doctors] how to suture, they also teach them how to stitch their self-worth to being all-powerful.

I think if people read more, that is a better world.

Each day is a little bit of history

It's a different thing when you play on a team that has to win, that doesn't consider it a good year unless you win the championship

You despise a man for avarice; but you do not hate him.