"Be careful, or your enemies will define you."

Tanni Christman

“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience by which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.”

Eleanor Roosevelt

“But men are better than gates, and no gate will endure against our Enemy if men desert it.”

J. R. R. Tolkien (1892-1973), Lord of the Rings

“Courage is found in unlikely places.”

J. R. R. Tolkien (1892-1973), Lord of the Rings

“Other evils there are that may come; for Sauron is himself but a servant or emissary. Yet it is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succor of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till. What weather they shall have is not ours to rule.”

J. R. R. Tolkien (1892-1973), Lord of the Rings