A day may come when the courage of men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship, but it is not this day.Aragorn, The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King

Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.

Courage will now be your best defence against the storm that is at hand-—that and such hope as I bring.

The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.

Your time may come. Do not be too sad, Sam. You cannot be always torn in two. You will have to be one and whole, for many years. You have so much to enjoy and to be, and to do.

I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam.

For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.

We set out to save the Shire, Sam and it has been saved - but not for me.

Few other griefs amid the ill chances of this world have more bitterness and shame for a man's heart than to behold the love of a lady so fair and brave that cannot be returned.

Then hope unlooked-for came so suddenly to Eomer's heart, and with it the bite of care and fear renewed, that he said no more, but turned and went swiftly from the hall.

The whole thing is quite hopeless, so it's no good worrying about tomorrow. It probably won't come.

Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs?

Violence?"Skulduggery said. "Violence is never the answer, until it's the only answer.

We want to keep the actual Civil War experience alive.

To the Christian death is the exchanging of a tent for a building.

The fame thing has happened very gradually, so I've been kind of lucky.

He thought he suddenly understood. For the Lincon-shire sergeant-major the word Peace meant that a man could stand up on a hill. For him it meant someone to talk to.

Most of us do more than subsist. From the vantage point of our ancestors, we live lives of almost unimaginable ease. Here again, we have innovation to thank.

Back in 1995, Bill Gates himself didn't understand that the internet was the direction computing was going.

The myth of hell represents all the meanness, all the revenge, all the selfishness, all the cruelty, all the hatred, all the infamy of which the heart of man is capable.

Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.