Most people spend most of their lives doing neither what they want to be doing nor what they ought to be doing.

We must lay before him what is in us; not what ought to be in us.

The gap between those who worship different gods is not so wide as the gap between those who worship and those who don't.

Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.

The most dangerous ideas in a society are not the ones being argued, but the ones that are assumed.

[The natural life] knows that if the spiritual life gets hold of it, all its self-centredness and self-will are going to be killed and it is ready to fight tooth and nail to avoid that.

The Calormens have dark faces and long beards. They wear flowing robes and orange-colored turbans, and they are a wise, wealthy, courteous, cruel and ancient people. They bowed most politely to Caspian and paid him long compliments all about the fountains of prosperity irrigating the gardens of prudence and virtue --and things like that-- but of course what they wanted was the money they had paid.