"I think that I shall never see a billboard lovely as a tree. Perhaps, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all."

"People who have what they want are fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they really don't want it."

"The Preacher, the Politicain, the Teacher, Were each of them once a kiddie. A child, indeed, is a wonderful creature. Do I want one? God Forbiddie!"

"A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold."

"Progress might have been all right once but it has gone on too long."

"Progress might have been all right once, but it has gone on too long."

"One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them."

"Diplomacy: The patriotic art of lying for one's country."

"I bet the human brain is a kludge."

"You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty."

"Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping."

"I've always wanted to own and control the primary technology in everything we do."