J. R. R. Tolkien

'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.

... it is impossible to make a history alone: even the greatest and mightiest hero is able to make only a tiny contribution to a history that changes the world.

Still round the corner there may wait
A new road or a secret gate;
And though I oft have passed them by,
A day will come at last when I
Shall take the hidden paths that run
West of the Moon, East of the Sun.

Excessive suspicion is more reliable than blind trust.

We come now to the very brink, where hope and despair are akin.

There are dangers from which one can only run away, and this will not be cowardice.

When Winter comes, and singing ends; when darkness falls at last;
When broken is the barren bough, and light and labour past;
I'll look for thee, and wait for thee, until we meet again:
Together we will take the road beneath the bitter rain!

I do not fight on any side, because no one is fighting on mine.

I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

Too late! Coming too late is worse than never.

You should not trust every gossip.

He cannot be both tyrant and counsellor.

I will go with you and I will go until I see fit — this is my price.

The world that surrounds us is huge. You can shield yourself with a wall and lock yourself from this world, but you cannot lock the world itself.