Far, far below the deepest delvings of the dwarves, the world is gnawed by nameless things.

Slight changes simply make a blur.

The birth, death, and resurrection of Jesus means that one day everything sad will come untrue.

The greatest adventure is what lies ahead. Today and tomorrow are yet to be said. The chances, the changes are all yours to make. The mold of your life is in your hands to break.

How do you move on? You move on when your heart finally understands that there is no turning back.

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

The chief purpose of life, for any of us, is to increase according to our capacity our knowledge of God by all means we have, and to be moved by it to praise and thanks.

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

It simply isn't an adventure worth telling if there aren't any dragons.

It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.

Instead of a Dark Lord, you would have a queen, not dark but beautiful and terrible as the dawn! Tempestuous as the sea, and stronger than the foundations of the earth! All shall love me and despair!

The oppressed, having internalized the image of the oppressor and adopted his guidelines, are fearful of freedom.

The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.

If someone knows me and likes me or my work, they're more likely to allow me to tell their story. But it also cuts the other way.

Of all hatreds that the world produces, a wife's hatred for her husband, when she does hate him, is the strongest.

You don't need religion to have morals. If you can't decide right from wrong then you lack empathy, not religion.

Sometimes when you push someone, you find out who that person really is.

If you can survive disappointment, nothing can beat you

To a suicide: You just poisoned the wrong person.

Making a movie is like making an ocean voyage, and the script is your ship.

The old men know when an old man dies.