Do I look stupid?" snarled Uncle Vernon, a bit of fried egg dangling from his bushy mustache.
No varnish can hide the grain of the wood; and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself.
The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will. ' Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities.
Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.
A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man.
The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.
One of the most revolutionary concepts to grow out of our clinical experience is the growing recognition that innermost core of man's nature - the deepest layers of his personality, the base of his 'animal nature' - is basically socialized, forward-moving, rational and realistic. . . He is realistically able to control himself, and he is incorrigibly socialized in his desires. There is no beast in man, there is only man in man.
You still have that competitive thing where you want to try to make hits. That won't go away, unless the mayor of show business says my time's up.
I'm a reactor. I can react to crowds, performing situations.
I found leaving Manchester United very, very hard.