Such bees! Bilbo had never seen anything like them. "If one were to sting me," He thought "I should swell up as big as I am!

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!

There is a shadow wherever there is light, but the mind can see what the eyes can't.

The life you want is a manifestation of self-realization.

To enjoy being famous, you need to have a screw loose.

Do not like, do not dislike; all will then be clear. Make a hairbreadth difference and heaven and earth are set apart.

If you win all the time, it's not good for the coaches or the kids.

The critics tend to forget their own answers after a while

To be average is to be as near the bottom as the top.

America decided we were going to stand by and let Americans die at the hands of terrorists a long time ago

I've always found that avoiding insanity is useful in life - which in American politics sometimes puts one in the minority.

Translations increase the faults of a work and spoil its beauties.