I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.

If only this toothache would go away, I could write another chapter on the problem of pain.

When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.

A man is never so proud as when striking an attitude of humility.

Far overhead from beyond the veil of blue sky which hid them the stars sang again; a pure, cold, difficult music. Then there came a swift flash like fire (but it burnt nobody) either from the sky or from the Lion itself, and every drop of blood tingled in the children's bodies, and the deepest, wildest voice they had ever heard was saying: "Narnia, Narnia, Narnia, awake. Love. Think. Speak. Be walking trees. Be talking beasts. Be divine waters.

Your people eat dry and tasteless flesh but it is off plates as smooth as ivory and as round as the sun.

Enemy-occupied territory - that is what this world is.