Green are the leaves I leave in Mirkwood.

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!

This is your karma. You do not understand now, but you will understand later. The source of pain is within your own larger expression of being.

Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture.

If you're constantly moving, you can get in a monotony that's just as equally boring as sitting still for a long period of time.

The person who bears and suffers evils with meekness and silence is the sum of a Christian man.

Honor, publicly, results in influence, privately.

My mind is very clear, but my heart is unable to understand.

Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.

Don't just give me an advance. I want a percentage.

Trophies should go to the winners. Self-esteem does not lead to success in life. Self-discipline and self-control do, and sports can help teach those.

If it were necessary to give the briefest possible definition of imperialism, we should have to say that imperialism is the monopoly stage of capitalism.