"I wish it need not have happened in my time, ' said Frodo. 'So do I,' said Gandalf, 'and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do w…"

"The world is not in your books and maps. It's out there."

"I love the trees more than I love the people."

"Fantasy is a natural human activity. It certainly does not destroy or even insult Reason; and it does not either beguile Children or delude them by its pleasantness into taking non-existent things for…"

"May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks."