Fair speech may hide a foul heart.

There is some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for.

I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to

Better mistrust undeserved than rash words.

And here he was, a little halfling from the Shire, a simple hobbit of the quiet countryside, expected to find a way where the great ones could not go, or dared not go. It was an evil fate.

I have spoken words of hope. But only of hope. Hope is not victory.

The treacherous are ever distrustful.

Then holding the star aloft and the bright sword advanced, Frodo, hobbit of the Shire, walked steadily down to meet the eyes.

Few can foresee whither their road will lead them, till they come to its end.

And he smote the Balrog upon the mountainside.

Being a cheerful hobbit, he had not needed hope, as long as despair could be postponed.

I wouldn't say you have an online life and a real life. I think technology is just mapping and organizing what already exists.

of course the pace of change never slows, even when we've convinced ourselves it will.

The collective dream is the hypnosis of social conditioning. Only sages, psychotics & geniuses manage to break free.

Love that goes upward is worship; Love that goes outward is affection; Love that stoops is grace.

What will matter is the good we did, not the good we expected others to do.

I prefer to give money to the person who's provided the good service. But I never tip at hotels, I think they overcharge anyway. But anything which is value for money will get my vote.

Isn't the origin of conflict ego? If there is no ego there is no becoming.

THE GENIUS of the industrial system lies in its organized use of capital and technology. This is made possible, as we have duly seen, by extensively replacing the market with planning.

Ordinary men hate solitude. But the Master makes use of it, embracing his aloneness, realizing he is one with the whole universe.

If a book told you something when you were fifteen, it will tell you it again when you're fifty, though you may understand it so differently that it seems you're reading a whole new book.