Aravis also had many quarrels (and, I'm afraid, even fights) with Cor, but they always made it up again: so that years later, when they were grown up, they were so used to quarrelling and making it up again that they got married so as to go on doing it more conveniently.

‎"Don't bother too much about your feelings. When they are humble, loving, brave, give thanks for them; when they are conceited, selfish, cowardly, ask to have them altered. In neither case are they you, but only a thing that happens to you. What matters is your intentions and your behavior

I didn’t go to religion to make me happy. I always knew a bottle of Port would do that. If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable, I certainly don’t recommend Christianity.

With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere.

Regarding the debate about faith and works: It's like asking which blade in a pair of scissors is most important.

We who have been true readers all our life fully realize the enormous of our being which we owe to authors.

He liked books if they were books of information and had pictures of grain elevators or of fat foreign children doing exercises in model schools.