There are older and fouler things than Orcs in the deep places of the world.

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!

His hands are miracles. I can watch them for hours, transforming wood into something it never dreamed of being.

I'm a lot less serious than people think.

But we reject the belief that America must choose between caring for the generation that built this country and investing in the generation that will build its future.

I've always loved to dress up a bit and show off.

Emotions in this game run deep so before these haters kill me in my sleep I'd like to say, it's been a pleasure.

God has saved you to make your appearance in the last days.

[A formula for answering controversial letters -- without even reading the letters:] Dear Sir (or Madame): You may be right.

As a player you can have a bad game and come back for the next game. As a coach you really can't do that. You have to dissect games night in and night out and figure what you did wrong.

She wasn't a person to whom things happen. She did all the happenings.

I don't listen to music, actually. Obviously I go to clubs; I stand in elevators; a lot of my friends are musicians; I hear music all the time. But I don't have my own collection of music.