"And then alas! I let the matter..." - Quote by J R R Tolkien

“Far more often [than asking the question 'Is it true?'] they [children] have asked me: 'Was he good? Was he wicked?' That is, they were far more concerned to get the Right side and the Wrong side clear. For that is a question equally important in History and in Faerie.”

“May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out.”

“And he smote the Balrog upon the mountainside.”

“Without action, you aren't going anywhere.”

“The Senate just sits and waits till they find out what the president wants, so they know how to vote against him.”

“A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.”

“Not to anticipate is already to moan.”

“I can't remember anything without a sadness so deep that it hardly becomes known to me, so deep that its tears leave me a spectator of my own stupidity.”

“To get back one's youth one has merely to repeat one's follies.”