That's the problem with wishes, they ensnare you. In fairy tales they're nothing but trouble, magnifying the greed and vanity of the person for whom they are granted.

Kale pe a, repeated my friend. It is an ancient Tibetan farewell when a caravan sets out to climb the high peaks. It means - go slowly if you wish to return.

And so he did the hardest thing he'd ever done in his life: he picked up his hat and walked away.

Think your little jokes'll help you on your deathbed? she jeered. Jokes? No, no, these are manners, replied Dumbledore.

Fame is a fickle friend, Harry. Celebrity is as celebrity does. Remember that.

Scrimgeour: It's time you learned some respect! Harry: It's time you earned it.

There is no wisdom without spirituality, and true spirituality always includes service

Cool air and hard work are a sure cure for the foolishness of love

You cannot judge the importance of things by the noise they make.

Handle with care - everything - even the predators.

Everything comes in useful once in a hundred years.

The minute we begin to think we have all the answers, we forget the questions.

A very wise man once told me that you can't look back-you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.

"Then why do you want to know?" "Because learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do."

The man who believes he can deceive the system and deceive us is definitely mentally ill.

So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their ending!

Yes, I, Gandalf the Grey,' said the wizard solemnly. 'There are many powers in the world, for good or for evil. Some are greater than I am. Against some I have not yet been measured. But my time is...

For a while the hobbits continued to talk and think of the past journey and of the perils that lay ahead; but such was the virtue of the land of Rivendell that soon all fear and anxiety was lifted...

But you speak of Master Gandalf, as if he was in a story that had come to an end. 'Yes, we do,' said Pippin sadly. 'The story seems to be going on, but I am afraid Gandalf has fallen out of it.

No dragon can resist the fascination of riddling talk and of wasting time trying to understand it.

Escaping goblins to be caught by wolves! he said, and it became a proverb, though we now say 'out of the frying-pan into the fire' in the same sort of uncomfortable situations.

All wisdom ends in paradox.

The knife is more dangerous than the hand and the knife can be in either hand.

A stone is heavy and the sand is weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.

Put your foot upon the neck of the fear of criticism by reaching a decision not to worry about what other people think, do, or say.

Bear gifts if you can't bear anything else.

You start a question, and it's like starting a stone. You sit quietly on the top of a hill; and away the stone goes, starting others; and presently some bland old bird {the last you would have thought...

He is able to put aside personal feelings and see the broad strokes. Experience counts in these things.

I once heard a man speak, who had understanding, and the promise of vision. He was called the Master of Culter.

No kindness is ever wasted, nor can we ever tell how much good may come of it.