“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all—in which case, you fail by default.”

“No story lives unless someone wants to listen. So thank you, all of you.”

“Why do you live?Because I have something worth living for.”

“You have to be free to fail in this world.”

“Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love.”

“As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.I wish you all very good lives.”

“I cared more about your happiness than your knowing the truth, more for your peace of mind than my plan, more for your life than the lives that might be lost if the plan failed. In other words I acted exactly as Voldemort expects we fools who love to act.”