Ah, music,"he said, wiping his eyes. "A magic beyond all we... - J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

"Alas! Earwax!"

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

"As much money and life as you could want! The two things most human beings would choose above all - the trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them."

"Do you mean ter tell me,"he growled at the Dursleys, "that this boy—this boy!—knows nothin' abou'—about ANYTHING?"Harry thought this was going a bit far. He had been to school, after all, and his marks weren't bad."I know some things,"he said. "I can, you know, do math and stuff."

"I hope you're pleased with yourselves. We could all have been killed - or worse, expelled. Now if you don't mind, I'm going to bed."