"Then she fell on her knees, saying:..." - Quote by J R R Tolkien

“I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.”

“A pen is to me as a beak is to a hen.”

“We may stand, if only on one leg, or at least be left still upon our knees.”

“After all, I do not have so many ways of proving that I am free. We is always free at the expense of someone else. It is a bother,but it is normal.”

“The United States and the freedom for which it stands, the freedom for which they died, must endure and prosper. Their lives remind us that freedom is not bought cheaply. It has a cost; it imposes a burden. And just as they whom we commemorate were willing to sacrifice, so too must we - in a less final, less heroic way - be willing to give of ourselves.”

“No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology.”

“Of all blessings, no gift equals the gentle, trusting love and companionship of a good woman.”

“What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?”

“Some of the biggest challenges in relationships come from the fact that most people enter a relationship in order to get something: they're trying to find someone who's going to make them feel good. In reality, the only way a relationship will last is if you see your relationship as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take.”