I#pray because the need flows out of me all the time-walking and sleeping. It does not change #‎ God - it changes me.

Freedom always comes with a price.

A real desire to believe all the good you can of others and to make others as comfortable as you can will solve most of the problems.

For in Calormen, story-telling (whether the stories are true or made up) is a thing you're taught, just as English boys and girls are taught essay-writing. The difference is that people want to hear the stories, whereas I never heard of anyone who wanted to read the essays.

Ah, you've come over the water. Powerful wet stuff, ain't it?

Vanity is really the least bad and most pardonable sort. The vain person wants praise, applause, admiration too much and is always angling for it. It is a fault, but a childlike and even (in an odd way) a humble fault. It shows that you are not yet completely contented with your own admiration. You value other people enough to want them to look at you. You are in fact still human.

We can never know that a piece of writing is bad unless we have begun by trying to read it as if it was very good and ended by discovering that we were paying the author an undeserved compliment.