"An author cannot of course remain wholly unaffected by his experience, but the desire to write has to be given to him, and the means to write depends on his power to bring it out of himself."

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

"It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit."

"May your beer be ample and your days be merry."

"Where there's a will there's a way, or where there's a whip there's a way, as we say in the Shire."