"The best of us must sometimes eat our words."

"Never be ashamed! There's some who'll hold it against you, but they're not worth bothering with."

"I really don't believe in magic."

"I will carry on writing, to be sure. But I don't know if I would want to publish again after Harry Potter."

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

"It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends."

"Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world."

"Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young."

"You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve."

"Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike."

"Death is just life's next big adventure."

"There is no good or evil: only power and those too weak to seak it."

"It is our choices... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."

"The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution."

"Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain."

"Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself."

"What's coming will come and we'll just have to meet it when it does."

"If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time."

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

"To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure."

"His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof."

"To the philosopher, death is but the next great adventure."

"There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other."