“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”

"For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain, and I do not know which to choose, yet to remain on in the flesh is more necessary for your sake."

'There is nothing new under the sun.' - Ecclesiastes 1:9

'You still have nothing when you have everything.'

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'The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them.
To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it.
To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.' - Douglas Adams

A mind all logic is like a knife all blade;
It makes the hand bleed that uses it. - Rabindranath Tagor

'Just remember every time you look up at the moon, I too will be looking at a moon. Not the same moon, obviously, that’s impossible.' - Drake Bell

'Your toast has been burnt and no amount of scraping will remove the black part.' - Caboose

'I don't need to be a train conductor to tell you a train wreck when I see one.'

'If you don't hate your life and come to die, don't come.'

'Every second is a gift.'

'Perfection is the ultimate enemy.'

'Never ascribe to malice, that which can be explained by incompetence.' - Napoleon