Right now, hail to the Michigan State Spartans.
The Lord of the Rings is of course a fundamentally religious and Catholic work; unconsciously so at first, but consciously in the revision.
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.
Love makes you foolish. It makes you throw every bit of logic away, do stupid things, dangerous things.
We don't grow on accident, we grow on purpose.
The larger the slice taken by government, the smaller the cake available for everyone.
There are so many dimensions in my music, and I think mostly what people hear is hope - the describing of experiences and the wonders of life