She remembered, as every sensible person does, that you should never never shut yourself up in a wardrobe.

The road to the promised land runs past Sinai.

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

A man can eat his dinner without understanding exactly how food nourishes him. A man can accept what Christ has done without knowing how it works: indeed, he certainly would not know how it works until he has accepted it.

Never, never pin your whole faith on any human being: not if he is the best and wisest in the whole world. There are lots of nice things you can do with sand; but do not try building a house on it.

Be confident small immortals. You are not the only voice that all things utter, nor is there eternal silence in the places where you cannot come.

What flows into you from myth is not truth but reality (truth is always about something, but reality is that about which truth is), and therefore, every myth becomes the father of innumerable truths on the abstract level.