“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”

“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”

“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.”

“Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.”

“The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.”

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”

“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”

“If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.”

“And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain: when you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.”

“In a time of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”

“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”

“Do you remember me telling you we are practicing non-verbal spells, Potter?”

“Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH', the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.”

“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”

“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”

“To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget.”

“Where there is love, there is life.”

“Who are you to judge the life I live?”

“You love me. Real or not real?”

“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”

“If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.”

“Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”

“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”

“We should all start to live before we get too old. Fear is stupid. So are regrets.”

“My dear fellow, who will let you?”

“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”

“I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer”

“I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”

“Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.”

“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”

“A good friend will always stab you in the front.”

“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”

“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind. Nor hath love's mind of any judgment taste; Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste: And therefore is love said to be a child, Because in choice he is so oft beguil'd.”

“One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.”

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”

“Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.”

“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”

“I would die for you. But I won't live for you.”

“I love you as certain dark things are to be loved.”

“Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.”

“There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.”

“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”

“Just when you think it can't get any worse, it can. And just when you think it can't get any better, it can.”

“You don't forget the face of the person who was your last hope.”

“Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he does not want to sign.”

“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”

“Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.”

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”

“Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”