It's our choices, more than anything, that show who we really are.

She had a way of seeing the beauty in others, even, and perhaps most especially, when that person couldn't see it in themselves.

Ah, Harry, how often this happens, even between the best of friends! Each of us believes that what he has to say is much more important than anything the other might have to contribute!

Finding out what you’re good at, and doing it to the best of your ability, is the route to self-respect.

Oh, these people's minds work in strange ways, Petunia, they're not like you and me," said Uncle Vernon, trying to knock in a nail with the piece of fruitcake Aunt Petunia had just brought him.

You can try, but you seem cleverer than Fudge, so I'd have thought you'd have learned from his mistakes. He tried intervening at Hogwarts. You might have noticed he's not Minister anymore, but Dumbledore's still headmaster. I'd leave Dumbledore alone, if I were you.

Some wounds run too deep for the healing.