Page 157: It does not to dwell on dreams and forget to live, remember that.
Page 211: There is no good and evil, there is only power, and those too weak to seek it.
Page 215: To the well-organised mind, death is but the next great adventure.
Page 215: 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 which are worst for them.
Page 216: Always use the proper name for things. Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.
Page 216: The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.
Page 216: He didn�t realise that love as powerful as your mother�s for you leaves its own mark. Not a scar, no visible sign� to have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection for ever. It is in your very skin.
Page 220: What a year it has been! Hopefully your heads are a little fuller than they were� you have the whole summer ahead to get them nice and empty before next year starts�
Page 221: There are all kinds of courage. It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Page 193: You will find that I will only truly have left when none here are loyal to me. You will also find that help will always be given to those who ask for it.
Page 242: Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can�t see where it keeps its brain.
Page 243: � the best of us must sometimes eat our words,
Page 245: It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Page 312: You think the dead truly leave us? You think that we don�t recall them more clearly ever in times of great trouble? They are alive in you, and they show themselves most plainly when you have need of them.
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Page 192: Because you�ve got to know. You�ve got to appreciate what the worst is. You don�t want to find yourself in a situation where you�re facing it. CONSTANT VIGILANCE.
Page 278: It is a strange thing, but when you are dreading something, and would give anything to slow down time, it has a disobliging habit of speeding up.
Page 520: Curiosity is not a sin, but we should exercise caution with our curiosity.
Page 590: He will stay because he needs to understand. Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.
Page 603: If I thought I could help you by putting you into an enchanted sleep, and following you to postpone the moment when you have to think about what has happened tonight, I would do it. But I know better. Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.
Page 614/615: You place too much importance, 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.
Page.626: It�s my belief that the truth is generally preferable to lies.
Page 627: ...we are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.
Page 627: Difference of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.
Page 628: Remember, if the time should come when you have to make a choice between what is right, and what is easy...
Page 635: ...time will not slow down when something unpleasant lies ahead.
Page 636: �what would come, would come� and he would have to meet it when it did.
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Page 110: A good first impression can work wonders.
Page 136: Even the best wizards cannot always control their emotions.
Page 169: Wit beyond measure is man's greatest treasure.
Page 193: ...some changes will be for the better, while others will come, in the fullness of time, to be recognised as errors of judgement. Meanwhile, some old habits will be retained, and rightly so, whereas others, outmoded and outworn, must be abandoned.
Page 205: Ask us no questions and we'll tell you no lies.
Page 438: Young people are so infernally convinced that they are absolutely right about everything.
Page 718: There is nothing worse than death.
Page 718: There are things worde than death.
Page 728: Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.
Page 735: People don't like being locked up.