If one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business.

No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good...Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is.

Don't judge a man by where he is, because you don't know how far he has come.

What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.

No Christian and, indeed, no historian could accept the epigram which defines religion as 'what a man does with his solitude.'

We were talking of DRAGONS, Tolkien and I In a Berkshire bar. The big workman Who had sat silent and sucked his pipe All the evening, from his empty mug With gleaming eye glanced towards us: "I seen 'em myself!" he said fiercely.

The next moment is as much beyond our grasp, and as much in God's care, as that a hundred years away. Care for the next minute is as foolish as care for a day in the next thousand years. In neither can we do anything, in both God is doing everything.