All I am in private life is a literary critic and historian, that's my job...And I'm prepared to say on that basis if anyone thinks the Gospels are either legends or novels, then that person is simply showing his incompetence as a literary critic. I've read a great many novels and I know a fair amount about the legends that grew up among early people, and I know perfectly well the Gospels are not that kind of stuff.

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

We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even the audience. We are on the stage.

If minds are wholly dependent on brains and brains on biochemistry, and biochemistry (in the long run) on the meaningless flux of the atoms, I cannot understand how the thought of those minds should have any more significance than the sound of the wind in the trees.

My friendship you shall have, leanred Man," piped Reepicheep. "And any Dwarf--or Giant---in the army who does not give you good language shall have my sword to reckon with.

You can't get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.

What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.