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.

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!

If you want to make God laugh, tell Him your plans...

They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.

Collect books, even if you don't plan on reading them right away. Filmmaker John Waters has said, "Nothing is more important than an unread library."

I feel a responsibility to the fans who have paid to see me and I want to give as good a show as I possibly can.

Extreme poverty anywhere is a threat to human security everywhere.

We must escape and help others to escape the two readymade formulas of the pure sexual encounter and the lovers' fusion of identities.

We Athenians hold that it is not poverty that is disgraceful but the failure to struggle against it.

There is only one way to receive intellectual respect, and that is to earn it. A degree doesn't mean anything, as there are too many maleducated morons running around with them to impress anyone.

You know I, I just think, that ah, things have a way of working themselves out.