“All have their worth and each contributes to the worth of the others.”

“I hope that each of you girls will become an individual of significant worth and a person of virtue so that your contributions are maintained in both human and eternal terms.”

“If thou hadst thy will what wouldst thou reserve?" said Manwe. "Of all thy realm what dost thou hold dearest?"All have their worth," said Yavanna, "and each contributes to the worth of the others. But the kelvar can flee or defend themselves, whereas the olvar that grow cannot. And among these I hold trees dear. Long in the growing, swift shall they be in the felling, and unless they pay toll with fruit upon their bough little mourned in their passing. So I see in my thought, would that the trees might speak on behalf of all things that have roots, and punish those that wrong them!”

“Sometimes I wonder if a friendship in which the common ground is all that is bad about each person is a friendship worth having.”

“No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of thosewho are throughout persuaded of each other's worth”

“And Othere are daysi this life,worth life and worth death”