“Their words, like the music, had the potential to be endless.”

“Humankind has endless potential, but shows an endless capacity to fall short of that promise.”

“Then the voices of the Ainur, like unto harps and lutes, and pipes and trumpets, and viols and organs, and like unto countless choirs singing with words, began to fashipn the theme of Iluvatar to a great music; and a sound arose of endless interchanging melodies woven in harmony that passed beyond hearing into the depths and into the heights, and the places of the dwelling of Iluvatar were filled to overflowing, and the music and the echo of the music went out into the Void, and it was not void.”

“I think that music has an endless life.”

“Words that had looked so strong on the page, which ran through his mind like music, now shriveled in the air around him.”

“If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be 'meetings.”