"I should like to save the Shire, if I could - though there have been times when I thought the inhabitants too stupid and dull for words, and have felt that an earthquake or an invasion of dragons might be good for them. But I don't feel like that now. I feel that as long as the Shire lies behind, safe and comfortable, I shall find wandering more bearable: I shall know that somewhere there is a firm foothold, even if my feet cannot stand there again."

carrying the world around his neck

"I see no hope of it now. But I've got to do the best I can."

”..I don’t think I’ve saved anything, greycloak – though I should like to save the Shire, Middle Earth, if I can. Though I am not very strong.. And if anything should be told of me, to whatever end, it cannot be said without the Fellowship and all it’s members included. I..I am very unworthy of this..”