...humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them.

There are much more terrible things than physical injury.

Bedaure nicht die Toten, Harry. Bedaure die Lebenden, und vor allem diejenigen, die ohne Liebe leben ...

I was afraid that your hot head might dominate your good heart

For in dreams we enter a world that is entirely our own

Oh, he's not unbalanced," said Dumbledore quietly. "He's just suffered a severe disappointment.