In this hour, I do not believe that any darkness will endure.

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.

Death is the saddest part of life.

If you want to be a great director, be a great screenwriter.

I like the word OLD. Not senior, that's for proms. Older? Older than whom? 'Old' is honorable and ripe

My whole motto is get four yards, and if I get more than four, that's fine.

Most of the time most people know the right thing to do ...its the doing of it that gives them trouble

Extreme justice is extreme injustice.

There is no condition of life in which we cannot abide in Jesus. We have to learn to abide in Him wherever we are placed.

You've got to trust [that] your own compass will lead you away from whatever mistakes were made.

Even without his robes an arahant is recognized simply by the effect his metta has in a crowd.

That's where the future lies, in the youth of today.