"I give you this toast: To the..." - Quote by J R R Tolkien

“his old life lay behind in the mists, dark adventure lay in front.”

“It is perilous to study too deeply the arts of the Enemy, for good or for ill.”

“For still there are so many things that I have never seen: in every wood in every spring there is a different green.”

“Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience- or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.”

“One day, may we all meet together in the light of understanding.”

“Hope sings when all melodies are gone.”

“A new world will be won not by those who stand at a distance with their arms folded, but by those who are in the arena, whose garments are torn by storms and whose bodies are maimed in the course of the contest.”

“Success is not achieved by winning all the time. Real success comes when we rise after we fall. Some mountains are higher than others. Some roads steeper than the next. There are hardships and setbacks but you cannot let them stop you. Even on the steepest road you must not turn back.”

“It is easy to get to the top after you get through the crowd at the bottom.”