...that once were urgent and necessary for an orderly world and now were buried away, gathering dust and of no use to anyone.

That's the beginning of magic. Let your imagination run and follow it.

Keep questioning! With time, you will find answers to your questions.

A decent life, even a short life, will always be far better than an exceptionally long life lived in ruin.

The thing about oppression is this: when you hold someone down, you, too, have to be there to make sure they don't move.

Commonplace minds usually condemn what is beyond the reach of their understanding.

You can make the Ring into an allegory of our own time, if you like: and allegory of the inevitable fate that waits for all attempts to defeat evil power by power.

Knowing how to fight made men more bold, because no one fears doing what it seems to him he has learned to do. Therefore, the ancients wanted their citizens to be trained in every warlike action.

I'm one of those that believes you can't be one kind of a man and another kind of president.

When somebody has convinced you that you're not worth anything to anybody anymore, and they spend a lot of time doing it, you start believing it yourself.

The world exists to set us free.