Stand by the grey stone when the thrush knocks, and the setting sun with the last light of Durin’s Day will shine upon the key-hole.

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 it sells, it's art.

Reason is God's gift but so are the passions. Reason is as guilty as passion.

All things have rest: why should we toil alone, We only toil, who are the first of things.

The news we hear, for the most part, is not news to our genius. It is the stalest repetition.

Paddington Bear was a refugee with a label - 'Please look after this bear. Thank you', and he had a little suitcase.

The pleasure isn't in owning the person. The pleasure is this. Having another contender in the room with you.

The elements of instruction should be presented to the mind in childhood, but not with any compulsion.

You can never have too much sky.

Even to a wicked man a divinity gives wealth, Cyrnus, but to few men comes the gift of excellence.

Faith doesn't wait until it understands; in that case it wouldn't be faith.