It is our choices... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.
Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.
We have to choose between what is right, and what is easy.
It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.
Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?
It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.
Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.
To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.
It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.
Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.
Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.
Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.
You think the dead we loved ever truly leave us?
Do not pity the dead, Harry.
Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love.
Just because you have the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean we all have.
Mr. Moony presents his compliments to Professor Snape, and begs him to keep his abnormally large nose out of other people's business. Mr. Prongs agrees with Mr. Moony, and would like to add that Professor Snape is an ugly git. Mr. Padfoot would like to register his astonishment that an idiot like that ever became a professor. Mr. Wormtail bids Professor Snape good day, and advises him to wash his hair, the slimeball.
I don't go looking for trouble. Trouble usually finds me.
... perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it.
or simply: