<i>"In that dream I thought the eastern sky grew dark and there was a growing thunder, but in the West a pale light lingered, and out of it I heard a voice, remote but clear, crying:
Seek for the Sword that was broken:
In Imladris it dwells;
There shall be counsels taken
Stronger than Morgul-spells.
There shall be shown a token
That Doom is near at hand,
For Isildur's Bane shall waken,
And the Halfling forth shall stand."<i>

"The perfect blossom is a rare thing. You could spend your life looking for one, and it would not be a wasted life."
 
"There is Life in every breath..."
 
"The duke had a mind that ticked like a clock and, like a clock, it regularly went cuckoo."
 
"In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded."
 
"Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don't find out til too late that he's been playing with two queens all along."
 
"Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it."
 
"There was always someone ready to cut the heir with a knife."
 
"To know everything, to know the whole truth, is dull. There is no magic in that. Magic is not knowing, magic is wondering about what and how and where."
 
"So we get help from someone wiser and more clued in then us. Beards are a good indication. It signifies age and wisdom and also sometimes poor hygiene. I think those things are actually connected."
 
"The greater the purpose, the harder it is to understand and to accept."
 
"You're stuck in life, like driftwood in a river. You lack direction. You lack faith."
 
"Imagination, not intelligence, made us human."
 
"I was thinking of 'duh?' in the sense of 'a sentence containing several words more than three letters long, and possibly requiring general knowledge or a sense of history that extends past last Tuesday, has been used in my presence."
 
"Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom."
 
"Brave men make good soldiers, but cowards make better strategists."
 
"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."