There is no power in you, no wisdom. However, you are elected, which means you will have to become strong, wise and valiant.

One who cannot cast away a treasure at need is in fetters.

The direct path is not always the shortest.

'In one thing you have not changed, dear friend,' said Aragorn: 'you still speak in riddles.'
'What? In riddles?' said Gandalf. 'No! For I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to; the long explanations needed by the young are wearying.'

The Road goes ever on and on
Down from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has gone,
And I must follow, if I can,
Pursuing it with eager feet,
Until it joins some larger way
Where many paths and errands meet.
And wither then? I cannot say.

Advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise.

You have to choose: wait or leave.

Unknown troubles on secret paths always turn out to be much more dangerous than open enemies on mountain roads.

You can know something bad or good. Knowledge is good, but also dangerous.

I tried to instill hope in you. But to hope does not mean to win.

The world will never be the same again, and the sun will be as bright as before.

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.

Traitors are always incredulous.

We want only one thing — freedom. We want to live as we always have, to own what we owned, and we do not want to bend our backs to a foreign ruler, no matter good or evil.

'You do not know your danger, Théoden,' interrupted Gandalf. 'These hobbits will sit on the edge of ruin and discuss the pleasures of the table, or the small doings of their fathers, grandfathers, and great-grandfathers, and remoter cousins ​​to the ninth degree, if you encourage them with undue patience.

The wise avoid talking about what he does not know.