What we learn from experience depends on the kind of philosophy we bring to experience.

Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.

Our problem is not that we desire too much but too little.

To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung.

I sometimes pray not for self-knowledge in general but for just so much self knowledge at the moment as I can bear and use at the moment; the little daily dose.

Lucy went first, biting her lip and trying not to say all the things she thought of saying to Susan. But she forgot them when she fixed her eyes on Aslan.

Fancy sleeping on air. I wonder if anyone's done it before. I don't suppose they have. Oh, bother—-Scrubb probably has!