"The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever."

"People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them."

"It is by acts and not by ideas that people live."

"Never lend books - nobody ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are those which people have lent me."

". . .everyone took an interest in the conversation, for each one was interested in what he or she said."

"The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread."

"More people out of work leads to higher unemployment.`"

"The only real failure in life is the failure to try."

"Life is like a ten-speed bike; most of us have gears we never use."

"Music--the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge, which comprehends mankind, but which mankind cannot comprehend."

"Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love replused - but it returneth"

"I am in fact a Hobbit, in all but size."