Frodo: Go back, Sam! I’m going to Mordor alone. Sam: Of course you are, and I’m coming with you!

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!

If an act is not one of work or courage, then it is not an act of love. There are no exceptions.

What can a man do with music who is not benevolent?

Distractions can be disastrous if they are allowed, they will steal precious time and energy from most important things that matters in life.

The author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.

We must identify our enemies and drive them into oblivion.

I've always loved writing. Doing that at the same time as playing music can be tiring.

We have a secret weapon...it is called Nationalism

I do believe in fairies, I do, I do.

My sole defense against the natural horror which death inspires is to love beyond it.

The intellectual power, through words and things, Went sounding on a dim and perilous way!