Safety and happiness can only come from individuals, classes, and nations being honest and fair and kind to each other.

For in Calormen, story-telling (whether the stories are true or made up) is a thing you're taught, just as English boys and girls are taught essay-writing. The difference is that people want to hear the stories, whereas I never heard of anyone who wanted to read the essays.

Our prayers for others flow more easily than those for ourselves. This shows we are made to live by charity.

We can never know what might have been but what is to come is another matter entirely

It was a full moon and, shining on all the snow, it made everything almost as bright as day -- only the shadows were rather confusing.

Love is the great conqueror of lust.

A tyrannous and gluttonous demand for affection can be a horrible thing. But in ordinary life no one calls a child selfish because it turns for comfort to its mother; nor an adult who turns to his fellow "for company." Those, whether children or adults, who do so least are not usually the most selfless.