“One conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study in a public school.”

“No, you cannot stop the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can stop them from building nests in your hair.”

“One tiny Hobbit against all the evil the world could muster. A sane being would have given up, but Samwise burned with a magnificent madness, a glowing obsession to surmount every obstacle, to find Frodo, destroy the Ring, and cleanse Middle Earth of its festering malignancy. He knew he would try again. Fail, perhaps. And try once more. A thousand, thousand times if need be, but he would not give up the quest.”

“2 minutes in heaven is better than 1 minute in heaven.”

“There is nothing better or more necessary than love.”

“To make great art, one first must become insane and desperate.”

“Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality.”