Even in this world of course it is the stupidest children who are most childish and the stupidest grown-ups who are most grown-up.

Don't shine so that others can see you. Shine so that through you, others can see HIM.

My son, by all means desist from kicking the venerable and enlightened Vizier: for as a costly jewel retains its value even if hidden in a dung-hill, so old age and discretion are to be respected even in the vile persons of our subjects. Desist therefore, and tell us what you desire and propose.

Provocation doesn't make me ill-tempered: it only shows me how ill-tempered I am.

At all ages, if [fantasy and myth] is used well by the author and meets the right reader, it has the same power: to generalize while remaining concrete, to present in palpable form not concepts or even experiences but whole classes of experience, and to throw off irrelevancies. Bat at its best it can do more; it can give us experiences we have never had and thus, instead of 'commenting on life,' can add to it.

To get even near humility, even for a moment, is like a drink of cold water to a man in a desert.

Our prayers for others flow more easily than those for ourselves. This shows we are made to live by charity.