It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.

I want to be a healer, and love all things that grow and are not barren.

Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars.

A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship.

Then shouldering their burdens, they set off, seeking a path that would bring them over the grey hills of the Emyn Muil, and down into the Land of Shadow.

Don't trust your head, Samwise, it is not the best part of you.

He has led us in here against our fears, but he will lead us out again, at whatever cost to himself.

...as young and as ancient as Spring....

...and all the stars flowered in the sky.

Memory is not what the heart desires. That is only a mirror....

Clothes are but little loss, if you escape from drowning.

If you're too focused on your current business, it's hard to change and concentrate on innovating.

When people know the desired destination, they’re free to improvise, as needed, in arriving there.

I have an amazing team, I have amazing producers, I have amazing writers, but at the end of it, it's me making the decisions on the writing, the tone, the editing.

You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman.

I was in the ROTC. Of course, ROTC stood for "Running off to Canada."

I believe health care is a basic right. If education - you're entitled to an education, why wouldn't you be entitled to adequate health care? Period.

They smiled in their pains and laughed to scorn those who inflicted torments on them, resigned up their souls with great alacrity, expecting to receive them again.

Writer is a monkey, jumping from one tree to another in the jungle of words.

Anybody can be a hellene, by his heart, his mind, his spirit.

I don't make the mistake of thinking it's a major musical event. I love the Eurovision Song Contest and it will continue long after I'm gone. Just please don't ask me to take it seriously.