Enemy occupied territory is what the world is.

Badness is only spoiled goodness.

'Being in love' first moved them to promise fidelity: this quieter love enables them to keep the promise.

Humour is...the all-consoling and...the all-excusing, grace of life.

Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.

God can show Himself as He really is only to real men. And that means not simply to men who are individually good, but to men who are united together in a body, loving one another, helping one another, showing Him to one another. For that is what God meant humanity to be like; like players in one band, or organs in one body.

Poetry most often communicates emotions, not directly, but by creating imaginatively the grounds for those emotions. It therefore communicates something more than the emotion; only by means of that something more does it communicate the emotion at all.