For I am the daughter of Elrond. I shall not go with him when he departs to the Havens: for mine is the choice of Luthien, and as she so have I chosen, both the sweet and the bitter.

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!

Those who complain never love, those who love, never complain.

Unlike any other empirical object in Nature, the mind's presence is immediately apparent to itself, but opaque to all external observers.

Without overcoming the obstacles on the path, how can you get to the top of the mountain?

In fighting the debt crisis, E.U. countries have enhanced co-operation and carried out reform with tremendous courage. This is laudable.

Foreign countries should impose sanctions against Putin's corrupt network.

When you work with Sir Anthony there are days when he will do a lot of takes if he's really enjoying a scene.

Pain revealed the paltry dimensions of love. The paltry dimensions of everything, in fact, except pain.

I don't want to be influenced by outside opinion.

I am just always, always paying attention - waiting for the words, or image, or name that will be the beginning of a story.

With a written agreement you have a prayer; with a verbal agreement you have nothing but air.