There is no shame in what you are feeling, Harry,' said Dumbledore's voice. 'On the contrary... the fact that you can feel pain like this is your greatest strength.

He never seemed to grasp the immense mutability of human nature, nor to appreciate that behind every nondescript face lay a wild and unique hinterland like his own.

I think the willfully unimaginative see more monsters. They are often more afraid.

Writing for me is a kind of compulsion, so I don't think anyone could have made me do it, or prevented me from doing it.

You are omniscient as ever, Dumbledore." "Oh, no, merely friendly with the local barmen.

He didn't realize that love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves its own mark.

Just because you have the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean we all have.