I think it's because it shows that people--or hobbits, as the case may be--can find strength they didn't know they had.

If I'd waited until I was well rested to read, I never would have read anything.

I was learning that when you're with someone who is dying, you may need to celebrate the past, live the present, and mourn the future all at the same time.

That's one of the amazing things great books like this do - they don't just get you to see the world differently, they get you to look at people, the people all around you, differently.

It was the women of afghanistan, my mother believed, who-once they’d been granted access to books and education- would be the salvation of the country

...two different kinds of Japanese psychotherapies, one based on getting people to stop using feelings as an excuse for their actions and the other based on getting people to practice gratitude.

...mindfulness - it isn't a trick or a gimmick. It's being present in the moment. When I'm with you, I'm with you. Right now. That's all. No more and no less.

You can only do what you can, and what doesn't get done, just doesn't get done.

Oh, dear--did I forget to mention that you can, indeed, have it all, but you need a lot of help!

The thing about Americans, ” she said, “is that you’re very concerned about everything all the time.

The greatest gift you can give anyone is your undivided attention...

Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.

Hate is a lack of imagination.

Behind every face lies a mask. Behind it lies another onion layer of mask. If you peel the skins, you may cry.

The sin underneath all our sins is to trust the lie of the serpent that we cannot trust the love and grace of Christ and must take matters into our own hands

I am bigger than anything that can happen to me.

I am made of endless hours. Not just split seconds.

I have two Iceland horses, a very hairy dog called Looney, and a guinea pig.

Slavery and freedom cannot exist together.

Every year in consulting is like three years in the corporate world because you have multiple clients, multiple issues - you grow so much.

Why couldn't you beat a richer club? I've never seen a bag of money score a goal.