It is for the superfluous we sweat.
Chip the glasses and crack the plates! Blunt the knives and bend the forks! That's what Bilbo Baggins hates.
Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.
A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.
For if joyful is the fountain that rises in the sun, its springs are in the wells of sorrow unfathomable at the foundations of the Earth.
It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end… because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it’s only a passing thing… this shadow. Even darkness must pass.
I am dreading the publication, for it will be impossible not to mind what is said. I have exposed my heart to be shot at.
I'm Little Miss Sunshine, I sprinkle it around.
Look, you come in here tomorrow, and anything you do with your right hand I'll do with my left.
The monkey body has carried us to this moment of release, but we are coming more and more to exist in a world made by the human imagination.
As you wait for better days, don't forget to enjoy today, in case they've already started.