“I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.”

All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost.

Even the smallest person can change the course of the future

There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.

Then Merry heard of all sounds in that hour the strangest. It seemed that Dernhelm laughed, and the clear voice was like the ring of steel. But no living man am I!

I will not walk backward in life.

It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.

Voiceless it cries, Wingless flutters, toothless bites, mouthless mutters.

A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.

It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to.

The wise speak only of what they know

Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.

He found himself wondering at times, especially in the autumn, about the wild lands, and strange visions of mountains that he had never seen came into his dreams.

Courage is found in unlikely places.

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

Sorry! I don’t want any adventures, thank you. Not Today. Good morning! But please come to tea -any time you like! Why not tomorrow? Good bye!

The whole thing is quite hopeless, so it’s no good worrying about tomorrow. It probably won’t come.

Since I think I am very boring in normal life, I tend to hide behind all these exciting characters, making people believe that I am someone else entirely. That feeling is very powerful.

You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.

The feeling of right or wrong is the beginning of wisdom.

Our appreciations, it was felt, could be so much more inclusive if we said that something, instead of being beautiful, was ‘interesting’.

If we want to change existing conditions, we must first transform ourselves, which means that we must become aware of our own actions, thoughts and feelings in everyday life.

The public pays and feels it is entitled to participate in the personal affairs of a performer.

We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.

She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.