"May your beer be ample and your days be merry."

"The greatest adventure is what lies ahead."

"The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it still grows, and in the shadow…"

"The hobbits are, in fact, a self-portrait, if I may say so, not of what I am, but of what I should like to be."

"I regret that I have but one life to lose for my country."