I can’t feel too sorry for them. Every gift has to run out someday. Anyone but a child knows that.

No, I will finish what I started, here, at Glimpa’s Arch. The act belongs to me, the consequence, pleasing or not, belongs to the gods.

And shake the yoke of inauspicious starsFrom this world-wearied flesh. Eyes, look your last!

A frightened captain makes a frightened crew.

It's not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail.

People say, 'The government couldn't carry out the September 11th attack, it's too big, they'd get caught!' They DID get caught! They're just counting on you to be dumb and to go along with it.

That's what I'll be. A silhouette, rarely seen, and yet believed in.

Come, Mr. Frodo!' he cried. 'I can't carry it for you, but I can carry you and it as well. So up you get! Come on, Mr. Frodo dear! Sam will give you a ride. Just tell him where to go, and he'll go

It's very good to know when you're being lapped on the racetrack, 'cause you've got to put your foot down on the pedal and get going.

It isn't about what you do, but how you do it

For me, books have always been a way to feel less alone while being alone.