You can't know, you can only believe - or not.

Most of us, I suppose, have a secret country but for most of us it is only an imaginary country. Edmund and Lucy were luckier than other people in that respect.

Humans are very seldom either totally sincere or totally hypocritical. Their moods change, their motives are mixed, and they are often quite mistaken as to what their motives are.

In justifying cruelty to animals we put ourselves also on the animal level. We choose the jungle and must abide by our choice.

I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than we can spare.

The descent to hell is easy and those who begin by worshipping power, soon worship evil.

I fancy that most people who think at all have done a great deal of their thinking in the first fourteen years.