Nothing is yet in its true form.

Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man.

When golden moments come, when God enables one really to pray without words, who but a fool would reject the gift?

Prayer does not change God; it changes me.

As to...old composers like Schubert or Beethoven, I imagine that, while modern music expresses both feeling, thought and imagination, they expressed pure feeling. And you know all day sitting at work, eating, walking, etc., you have hundreds of feelings that can't be put into words. And that is why I think that in a sense music is the highest of the arts, because it really begins where the others leave off.

A dragon has just flown over the tree-tops and lighted on the beach. Yes, I am afraid it is between us and the ship. And arrows are no use against dragons. And they're not at all afraid of fire." "With your Majesty's leave-" began Reepicheep. "No, Reepicheep," said the King very firmly, "you are not to attempt a single combat with it.

Through pride the devil became the devil. Pride leads to every vice, it's the complete anti-God state of mind.