The ideal life

Good books, good friends and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. - Mark Twain   (While he admittedly left God out of the factoring, those three elements do contribute to a more ideal life.  Add good faith/religion/spirituality to the mix and I would say it was ideal.)

Office Quote #4 (On the back of my door)

Remember what Bilbo used to say: It's dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't mind your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.
 -Sam Gamgee, Lord of the Rings
    Just watched the movie again last night and enjoyed this familiar quote. The books and the movies by Peter Jackson have remained among my favorites for years.  I was so pumped about the movie when it was released I couldn't get to sleep the evening I first saw LOTR- Fellowship of the Ring.

On reading

There's no thief like a bad book. - Italian Proverb
       Who hasn't found this proverb to be true.  At least as I get older I tend to recognize bad books before I have wasted too much time on them.