Then hope unlooked-for came so suddenly to Eomer's heart, and with it the bite of care and fear renewed, that he said no more, but turned and went swiftly from the hall.

Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.

Courage will now be your best defence against the storm that is at hand-—that and such hope as I bring.

The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.

Your time may come. Do not be too sad, Sam. You cannot be always torn in two. You will have to be one and whole, for many years. You have so much to enjoy and to be, and to do.

I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam.

For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.

We set out to save the Shire, Sam and it has been saved - but not for me.

Few other griefs amid the ill chances of this world have more bitterness and shame for a man's heart than to behold the love of a lady so fair and brave that cannot be returned.

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

End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path. One that we all must take.

Playing the game means treating your dogs like gentlemen, and your gentlemen like dogs.

We can't really know ourselves because we have not created ourselves. But we can know computers, we can know cars, because anything that we made, we can understand.

The Capitol is the best work I have ever done, or shall ever do, and I am glad to have Given it to St. Paul.

Just once I'd like someone to call me 'Sir' without adding 'You're making a scene.'

'Brokeback Mountain' takes all your conceptions of America, and the Western, and cowboys, and sexuality, and love, and it stirs them all up.

Everything’s a story, kid. Stories are what help us make sense of the world.

Sometimes, I'll read a news story and there will be one line about something else, and I'll find it interesting and look into it. That can often turn into an entire story on its own.

I may not be in control of anything else, but I am in control of my body.

I am very aware that I'm one of the luckiest people who ever lived.

As for inhibitions, I've spent a lifetime developing them, and I don't intend to lose them.