Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

Christianity thinks of human individuals not as mere members of a group or items in a list, but as organs in a body-different from one another and each contributing what no other could.

Safe?” said Mr. Beaver; “don’t you hear what Mrs. Beaver tells you? Who said anything about safe? ‘Course he isn’t safe. But he’s good. He’s the King, I tell you.

If you love deeply, you're going to get hurt badly. But it's still worth it.

I felt in my bones that this universe does not explain itself.

Grief. The pain now is part of the happiness then. That's the deal.

Morality, like numinous awe, is a jump; in it, man goes beyond anything that can be 'given' in the facts of experience.