"I have spent my life in the company of books and I have learned much from them."

"Short cuts make long delays."

"I have found that it is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love."

"Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens."

"Hobbits are an unobtrusive but very ancient people, more numerous formerly than they are today; for they love peace and quiet and good tilled earth: a well-ordered and well-farmed countryside was thei…"