J.R.R. Tolkien — "I am not a hero. I am a hobbit."

"Home is behind, the world ahead, And there are many paths to tread Through shadows to the edge of night, Until the stars are all alight."

"Where there's a will there's a way, or where there's a whip there's a way, as we say in the Shire."

"Go in peace! I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil."

"I am a Christian, and of course what I write is, of course, Christian. I mean, I don't mean that I've tried to make it Christian at all, it's not Christian in that sense. It's not propaganda. It is a …"

"The praise of the praiseworthy is above all rewards."