A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities.

A friend of mine tells that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it.

For victory is victory, however small, nor is its worth only from what follows from it.

Look, up at the sky. There is a light, a beauty up there, that no shadow can touch

There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something.

Outside the ring of dancing warriors with spears and axes stood wolves at a respectful distance, watching and waiting.

They hammered on the outer gate and called, but there was at first no answer; and then to their surprise someone blew a horn, and the lights in the windows went out. A voice shouted in the dark: 'Who's that? Be off! You can't come in. Can't you read the notice: No admittance between sundown and sunrise?' 'Of course we can't read the notice in the dark,' Sam shouted back. 'And if hobbits of the Shire are to be kept out in the wet on a night like this, I'll tear down your notice when I find it.