If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.

The stories we love best do live in us forever.

Albus Severus," Harry said quietly, so that nobody but Ginny could hear, and she was tactful enough to pretend to be waving to Rose, who was now on the train, "you were named for two headmasters of Hogwarts. One of them was a Slytherin and he was probably the bravest man I ever knew.

What would come, would come...and you would have to meet it, when it did.

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

The consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed.

We must try not to sink beneath our anguish, Harry, but battle on.

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

It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.