“I fear I am beyond your comprehension. - Gandalf the White”

“The treacherous are ever distrustful.”

“I know. Its all wrong. By rights we shouldnt even be here. But we are. It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes...”

“I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to”

“There is some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for.”

“Being a cheerful hobbit, he had not needed hope, as long as despair could be postponed.”

“I have little use for religion as it is practiced, or for astrology, or for belief in witchcraft or omens of good or ill-luck. I think they all stem from some insufficiency in mens minds, perhaps f...”

“It is only the innocent mind which knows what love is, and the innocent mind can live in the world which is not innocent.”

“So if you can look at all things without allowing pleasure to creep in - at a face, a bird, the colour of a sari, the beauty of a sheet of water shimmering in the sun, or anything that gives deligh...”