Compromise is a choice. As is the defence of one’s self.

A man is biologically incapable of giving ‘the look’.

Life is a wonderfully fine thing. Go live it.

Character and purpose are directly linked to confidence and conviction. What links them? Courage – to be oneself, no matter what others might say.

You need to be outdoors. Away from here. You need a holiday.

In with the new, out with the old.’ That’s what we’re told. We have to change, adapt, compromise.

Change, it seems, is inevitable. And so is compromise.

Things today ‘sure ain’t like they used to be’. They’ve changed, moved on, progressed.

Fine Things are reservoirs for the heart.

The bright light of brilliance keeps the darkness away, but it can be so very exhausting.

I’m a classic eccentric, living at the extremes of high mania and low mood. There’s no middle ground, only madness and sadness.

Why O why did I ever leave my hobbit-hole?" said poor Mr. Baggins, bumping up and down on Bombur's back.

The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them in parliament.

There's real potency in metal. Metal fans love metal as if it's a nation they would fight for. It's not diluted by pop culture.

As he thinks, so he is; as he continues to think, so he remains.

There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.

Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.

Ritual is important to us as human beings. It ties us to our traditions and our histories.

I will no longer act on the outside in a way that contradicts the truth that I hold deeply inside. I will no longer act as if I were less than the whole person I know myself inwardly to be.

I think the Macintosh was created by a group of people who felt that ah there wasn't a strict vision between sort of science and art.

My decision on this matter is as certain and final as death and the staggering New Deal taxes.