Then shouldering their burdens, they set off, seeking a path that would bring them over the grey hills of the Emyn Muil, and down into the Land of Shadow.

I want to be a healer, and love all things that grow and are not barren.

Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars.

It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.

A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship.

Don't trust your head, Samwise, it is not the best part of you.

He has led us in here against our fears, but he will lead us out again, at whatever cost to himself.

...as young and as ancient as Spring....

...and all the stars flowered in the sky.

Memory is not what the heart desires. That is only a mirror....

Clothes are but little loss, if you escape from drowning.

And stop talking in that puffed-up way they taught you. Words aren't brains, you know.

When the image is new, the world is new.

That day I saw people trying to feed themselves but managing to do so only on a subsistence level. And people who are hungry are not worried about communism or Communists.

The self is every person's true enemy.

Fortunately, any kind of setback has represented a challenge to do better, rather than an acceptance of inferiority on my part.

I see myself as someone who's been saved by writing. God knows what I would have been, become or how I would have ended up without it.

The difference between a winner and a loser is, many times, a matter of inches. If you think you can do it, most of the time you'll do it.

It makes him hated above all things, as I have said, to be rapacious, and to be a violator of the property and women of his subjects, from both of which he must abstain.

You can't imagine hip-hop without the Black Panthers. Today, hopefully, the movement can be an inspiration to people. These were people who made mistakes but they were trying to change things.

Anyone can memorize facts and figures. The real way to learn anything is to go out and experience it. Let your curiosity lead you.