I don't feel any guilt complex about The Lord of the Rings.

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!

I’m going to follow this invisible red thread until I find myself again… until I finally figure out… who I’m meant to be.

Why then the world's mine oyster Which I with sword will open.

Clearly, commitment is a necessary component for creating loving relationships.

(I'm) the only one to take out half a brain, although you would think, if you go to Washington, that someone had beat me to it.

Chuck Norris has been known to throw a baseball 100 mph. I've been known to throw Chuck Norris 100 mph.

If I didn't see its place in the Saga when I planned it, I probably wouldn't write it at all.

I experienced the discomfort of those who have moved mentally, but are still clamped, physically, to the places they have moved from.

The only way you can get at the state is by dealing with its laws.

I grew up with a lot of fairy tales. And they had an essence of darkness to them.

My own reaction from a distance is that Pol Pot's demise as the leader of the Khmer Rouge was inevitable, and that his own paranoia did him in as much as anything else.