"If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals."
"It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."
"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."
"Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young."
"Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike."
"The best of us must sometimes eat our words."
"It is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."
"Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire."
"Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them."
"It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but even more to stand up to your friends."
"Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences."
"When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love."
"Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth..."
"Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth."
"It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more."
"...people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right."
