And the Ring is so heavy, Sam. I begin to see it in my mind all the time, like a great wheel of fire.

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!

They put me in a holding cell with a black kid and a white kid and a Chinese kid. We're the United Nations of juvenile delinquents.

I think everyone's parents have secrets. You just have to know where to look for them.

To know how to say what others only know how to think is what makes men poets or sages and to dare to say what others only dare to think makes men martyrs or reformers-or both.

I don't call myself a singer, I'm a voice, lent to music

Science demands from a man all his life. If you had two lives that would not be enough for you. Be passionate in your work and in your searching.

I was going to die, but I didn't have to grovel.

We're all the same, we all think its better somewhere else; its better being older if you're younger - or its better being younger when we're older.

Once a year I try writing a poem, usually because I've read some poetry that amazed me and I want to do that.

The idea of perfect womanhood is perfect independence

You don't want 300 million Americans putting their money under the mattress.