J. K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth...
J. K. Rowling - Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets, 1999
It is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
J. K. Rowling - Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince
...people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.
J. K. Rowling
Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire.
J. K. Rowling
It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but even more to stand up to your friends.
J. K. Rowling - Harry Potter
Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them.
J. K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, 2005
When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.
J. K. Rowling - Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets, 1999
The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
J. K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, 2005
It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.
J. K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
J. K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
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.
J. K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
J. K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, 2003
Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.
J. K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, 2005
Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.
J. K. Rowling - J. K. Rowling Official Website
Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.
J. K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, 2003
Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.

- J. K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince