A lot of people who are straight-shooting…they’re only happy to be so blunt when talking about others. They’re not so upfront about who they are, what flaws they have, and what their issues are.

We have our Arts so we won't die of Truth

Let your work speak, Let your work scream, Let your work live, Forever.

Good luck belongs to those who know how and are not afraid." John Hay to President Theodore Roosevelt

I think what 'The Hobbit' and Middle-earth deal in are quite universal and timeless themes of honour and love and friendship... so they're things that do resonate with people.

God has blessed me to see the luxury side of things.

Each book will have a lot of cliffhangers, because I like that.

A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.

I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.

Politics is not how you vote, it is how you live. It is not how you choose, but how you think.

Today you are standing in a position that would please the friend and would anger the enemy and all the infidels. You will be victorious against the enemies and you are causing them to suffer.