"Go in peace! I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil."

"I have found that it is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love."

"The Lord of the Rings is of course a fundamentally religious and Catholic work; unconsciously so at first, but consciously in the revision."

"I often feel that I am a visitor in this world, that I am not really of it."

"I am in fact a Hobbit (in all but size)."