When you start to treat the light weights like heavy weights, the heavy weights will go up a lot easier.

Biceps are like ornaments on a Christmas tree.

I never know, " Harry called to Hagrid over the noise of the cart, "What's the difference between a stalagmite and a stalactite?""Stalagmite's got an 'm' in it, " said Hagrid.

...courage wasn’t something you were bequeathed at birth, and it wasn’t a lack of fright. It was overcoming your fear, because the ones you love mattered more.

A certificate of live birth is not the same thing by any stretch of the imagination as a birth certificate.

The only time a question should be asked is when all other possibilities of finding the answer for yourself have been eliminated.

I am a big fan of movies from the ’70s.

Religion is man-made. Even the men who made it cannot agree on what their prophets or redeemers or gurus actually said or did.

Holdsworth is so damned good that I can't cop anything. I can't understand what he's doing. I've got to do this [does two-hand tapping], whereas he'll do it with one hand.

I was initiated as a Buddhist monk at the age of 19, but I think that initiation is simply a starting point.

Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself.

What can any of us do with his talent but try to develop his vision, so that through frequent failures we may learn better what we have missed in the past.