If you are a Christian you do not have to believe that all the other religions are simply wrong all through. If you are an atheist you do have to believe that the main point in all the religions of the whole world is simply one huge mistake.

A powerful dragon crying its eyes out under the moon in a deserted valley is a sight and a sound hardly to be imagined.

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

Whenever you are fed up with life, start writing: ink is the great cure for all human ills, as I have found out long ago.

Friendship is the greatest of worldly goods. Certainly to me it is the chief happiness of life.

Let there be wicked kings and beheadings, battles and dungeons, giants and dragons, and let the villans be soundly killed at the end of the book. I think it is possible that by confining your child to the blameless stories of life in which nothing at all alarming ever happens, you would fail to banish the terrors, and would succeed in banishing all that can ennoble them or make them endurable.

Education is only the most fully conscious of the channels whereby each generation influences the next.