When Mr. Bilbo Baggins of Bag End announced that he would shortly be celebrating his eleventy-first birthday with a party of special magnificence, there was much talk and excitement in Hobbiton.

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!

Being divorced does not necessarily make one’s advice on marriage useless … or useful.

You should not ask questions without knowledge.

The worst thing that can happen to you in travel is having a gun pointed at you by a very young person. That's happened to me maybe four times in my life. I didn't like it.

What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe?

I don't just strictly sample. I build. I'm a musician: I play piano and drums, I read notes, I write music.

There is no such thing as too much fun. People need to know it is O.K. to tell jokes and be happy.

I do not think much of the good luck theory of self-made men. It is worth but little attention and has no practical value.

In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.

Jews are just like everyone else, only more so.

Just be patient, she told herself, and with the mounting pages, the strength of her writing fist grew.