J. R. R. Tolkien

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

There is a crack in everything God has made.

Be not the slave of your own past – plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with new self-respect, with new power, and with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.

I think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. I’ll put it before any of the things like courage or bravery or generosity or anything else.

You’ll never have a quiet world until you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

We have a lot of anxieties, and one cancels out another very often.

We shall see but little way if we require to understand what we see. How few things can a man measure with the tape of his understanding! How many greater things might he be seeing in the meanwhile!

The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain’t so.

Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.

Conversation enriches the understanding; but solitude is the school of genius.

Those that are little, little things suit.

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

England and America are two countries separated by the same language.

There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right.