"Without the high and noble the simple..." - Quote by J R R Tolkien

“We are being at once wisely aware of our own frivolity if we avoid hitting and whacking and prefer 'striking' and 'smiting'; talk and chat and prefer 'speech' and 'discourse'; well-bred, brilliant, or polite noblemen (visions of snobbery columns in the Press, and fat men on the Riviera) and prefer the 'worthy, brave and courteous men' of long ago.”

“Eastward the dawn rose, ridge behind ridge into the morning, and vanished out of eyesight into guess; it was no more than a glimmer blending with the hem of the sky, but it spoke to them, out of the memory and old tales, of the high and distant mountains.”

“Well, you can go on looking forward," said Gandalf. "There may be many unexpected feasts ahead of you.”

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”

“Work on with the intrepidity of a lion but at the same time with the tenderness of a flower.”

“To go out of your mind once a day is tremendously important, because by going out of your mind you come to your senses. And if you stay in your mind all of the time, you are over rational, in other words you are like a very rigid bridge which because it has no give; no craziness in it, is going to be blown down by the first hurricane.”

“I think your values are always influenced by your family and your community.”

“We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values.”

“The one thing the terrorists cannot do -- not one of them, not 10 of them, not 10,000 of them -- they cannot change who we are.”