If you want to touch me, Kendall, touch me. Don't hide behind those little girl slaps.
Polite beggary is too common.
A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, never with its reason.
After every storm the sun will smile; for every problem there is a solution, and the soul's indefeasible duty is to be of good cheer.
What is the highest secret to victory and peace? To will what God wills, and strike a league with destiny.
Fate is the friend of the good, the guide of the wise, the tyrant of the foolish, the enemy of the bad.
Words of love are works of love.
Consider what you have in the smallest well-chosen library-a company of the wisest and wittiest men which can be plucked out of all civilized countries in a thousand years. The men themselves were then hidden and inaccessible. They were solitary, impatient of interruption, and fenced by etiquette. But now they are immortal, and the thought they did not reveal, even to their bosom friends, is here written out in transparent words of light to us, who are strangers of another age.
You know, we all oppose animal cruelty. But sometimes we forget that animals on farms suffer and feel pain like all other animals. They, too, deserve to be protected from harm and cruelty.
They gutted the book, making an action movie for 15-25 year olds. Tolkien became. . . devoured by his popularity and absorbed by the absurdity of the time. The gap widened between the beauty, the seriousness of the work, and what it has become is beyond me. This level of marketing reduces to nothing the aesthetic and philosophical significance of this work.
The more you give, the more you live.