“Words that speak of things close at hand and carry far-reaching implications those are the good words.”

“Theres only one way to know if people are good or evil: look at the choices they make. We each contain precious and worthless, great and small. Never injure the great for the sake of the small, or ...”

“Integrity, wisdom, skill, intelligence such things are forged in adversity.”

“For nurturing the mind, theres nothing like paring your desires away to a very few. If you have few desires, there may still be some capricious whims in your mind, but theyll be few. If you have ma...”

“If someone stops where they should not, theyll stop anywhere. If someone slights a person they should treat generously, theyll slight anyone. And if someone races ahead, they retreat in a hurry.”

“The truth." Dumbledore sighed. "It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.”

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”

“Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”

“All words are pegs to hang ideas on.”

“A word is not the same with one writer as it is with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.”

“No doubt I shall go on writing, stumbling across tundras of unmeaning, planting words like bloody flags in my wake....”