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

"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."

"The only thing that ultimately matters is to have done what you were meant to do."

"Despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not."

"The hobbits are, in fact, a self-portrait, if I may say so, not of what I am, but of what I should like to be."