It is necessary to sleep upon the pillow of doubt.
Why do people have to love people anyway?
I think of life itself now as a wonderful play that I've written for myself, and so my purpose is to have the utmost fun playing my part.
Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power.
We are not victims of the world we see, we are victims of the way we see the world.
Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.
Don't be afraid to go out on a limb. It's where all the fruit is.
The academic world was marching toward ever more specialized knowledge, expressed in ever more dense jargon.
I'm not the type of person who enjoys the limelight.
Do you remember me telling you we are practicing non-verbal spells, Potter?" "Yes," said Harry stiffly. "Yes, sir. " "There's no need to call me "sir" Professor. " The words had escaped him before he knew what he was saying.
We first got marijuana from an older drummer with another group in Liverpool. We didn't actually try it until after we'd been to Hamburg. I remember we smoked it in the band room in a gig in Southport and we all learnt to do the Twist that night, which was popular at the time. We were all seeing if we could do it. Everybody was saying, 'This stuff isn't doing anything. ' It was like that old joke where a party is going on and two hippies are up floating on the ceiling, and one is saying to the other, 'This stuff doesn't work, man. '