I can manage, " said Frodo. "I must.

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.

Only the living can learn from their mistakes.

Man, Grandma, what big hair you have.""The better to style with, my dear.

I don't want to say anything about my kids . . . but I go to PTA meetings under an assumed name!

It is the "try" that is more often counted for righteousness and not the success or failure.

Yes, winning the gold medal was undoubtedly the biggest day of my career - mostly because I won the way I had prepared to run it. It was a totally satisfying experience.

Life is a slate where all our sins are written; from time to time we rub the sponge of repentance over it so we can begin sinning again.

I'm one of those people who thinks that changing one's hair is the only part of the body that you can change at will.

My memories of literary agenting are of a very happy time and there are surprising reminders of it coming back now.

If you can find a way to confound people's prejudices, restore the humanity of people, individuals, you restore them to life.

I'm a lucky guy. I don't take for granted, for one minute, what I do.