There was Eru, the One, who in Arda is called Ilúvatar; and he made first the Ainur, the Holy Ones, that were the offspring of his thought, and they were with him before aught else was made.

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!

Guilt starts as a feeling of failure.

Small shifts in your thinking, and small changes in your energy, can lead to massive alterations of your end result.

Sometimes… we have a war in our hearts. We’re torn in two directions. The way we feel and the way we should feel. They rarely align. The battle goes on.

Astonishing how tea opens the ears.

Is there anyone among the great men who has not imitated? Nothing is made with nothing.

Everybody's vote should count equally in the United States.

A mere collector of supposed facts is as useful as a collector of matchboxes.

We'll just have to find more flowers in the spring. That's when they bloom, tra la.

I try not to think of actors as I'm writing because I think you do them a disservice by writing for things they've already done.

Be careful what you yearn for, because that which you desire most will either complete you or destroy you, and you don't get to choose.