Well, you can go on looking forward," said Gandalf. "There may be many unexpected feasts ahead of you.

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!

Jesus came to save me from myself. He came to save me from self-effort. He didn't just die for my sin to give me forgiveness

I believe that woman is the equal of man - if she is. That woman is no better than man - unless she is.

The evil of predatory global capitalism and empire has spawned the evil of terrorism

I don't come from a family of readers - in fact, my parents are unable to read the books in English.

This is the month, and this the happy morn, wherein the Son of heaven's eternal King, of wedded Maid and Virgin Mother born, our great redemption from above did bring.

Rest, nature, books, music...such is my idea of happiness.

Those who succeed have a clear, focused picture of their success. The level of success they attain matches the expansiveness of their dreams

At the age of twenty six I am in the condition of an aged person - all my old friends are gone... & my heart fails when I think by how few ties I hold to the world.

Printing money creates inflation, which weakens an economy. Unfortunately, this kind of common-sense thinking never seems to penetrate academic circles.

Only buy things that make your heart sing. If I don't love it, I won't buy it.