Human nature craves novelty.

Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.

The feasant hens of Colchis, which have two ears as it were consisting of feathers, which they will set up and lay down as they list.

It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).

The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.

Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?

An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.

In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.

From the end spring new beginnings.

Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.

In wine, there's truth.

Writing a novel is like traveling the universe on foot.

There are no whole truths. All truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil.

Historians and archaeologists will one day discover that the ads of our time are the richest and most faithful reflections that any society ever made of its entire range of activities.

I haven't sat down and memorized the language of Elvish, and anyone who does that is crazy!

What time can be more beautiful when the one in which the finest virtues, innocent cheerfulness and indefinable longing for love constitute the sole motives of your life.

When I worked at the White House in the mid-1990s, I would not have dreamed of sharing my beliefs on faith with my colleagues.

So many people say, "I'm a good person!" Like, why are you a good person? To be a good person you have to actively be good.

Suspicion cleaves to the dark side of things.

When you don't know what to do, try something; if that doesn't work, try something else.

I MUST go to what desperately frightens me - the chance of failure.