It takes much bravery to stand up to our enemies but we need as much bravery to stand up to our friends.
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories.
When I was your age, television was called books.
Sometimes you read a book so special that you want to carry it around with you for months after you've finished just to stay near it.
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
There is nothing ugly; I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may,—light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.
You place too much importance, and you always have done, on the so-called purity of blood! You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
"The truth." Dumbledore sighed. "It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and therefore should be treated with caution..."