Then holding the star aloft and the bright sword advanced, Frodo, hobbit of the Shire, walked steadily down to meet the eyes.
age means nothing. If anything I feel that I'm still a child: eternity and childhood are my ages.
I knew that good like bad becomes a routine, that the temporary tends to endure, that what is external permeates to the inside, and that the mask, given time, comes to be the face itself.
A touch of madness is, I think, almost always necessary for constructing a destiny.
Love is a punishment. We are punished for not having been strong enough to remain alone.
Every life is punctuated by deaths and departures, and each one causes great suffering that it is better to endure rather than forgo the pleasure of having known the person who has passed away. Somehow our world rebuilds itself after every death, and in any case we know that none of us will last forever. So you might say that life and death lead us by the hand, firmly but tenderly.
Our great mistake is to try to exact from each person virtues which he does not possess, and to neglect the cultivation of those which he has.
I always have to be writing.
Be in the moment as an actor and as a human being, and you're going to be happy.
Holiness is religious principle put into motion. It is the love of God sent forth into circulation, on the feet, and with the hands of love to men. It is faith gone to work. It is charity coined into actions, and devotion breathing benedictions on human suffering, while it goes up in intercession to the Father of all piety.
You'd be surprised how many people in the modern age no longer fear zombies as much as teletubies.