I don't read 'chick lit,' fantasy or science fiction but I'll give any book a chance if it's lying there and I've got half an hour to kill.

He must have known I'd want to leave you." "No, he must have known you would always want to come back.

We have to choose between what is right, and what is easy.

It is a curious thing, Harry, but perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it. Those who, like you, have leadership thrust upon them, and take up the mantle because they must, and find to their own surprise that they wear it well.

The spells are made up. I have met people who assure me, very seriously, that they are trying to do them, and I can assure them, just as seriously, that they don’t work.

There is no good and evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it.

Time is making fools of us again.