The difference [God's] timelessness makes is that this now (which slips away from you even as you say the word now) is for Him infinite.

I could never have gone far in any science because on the path of every science the lion Mathematics lies in wait for you.

Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that.

The mouse is a fair treat but this one would talk the hind legs off a donkey.

Even in this world of course it is the stupidest children who are most childish and the stupidest grown-ups who are most grown-up.

The question is not what we intended ourselves to be, but what He intended us to be when He made us.

Lucy went first, biting her lip and trying not to say all the things she thought of saying to Susan. But she forgot them when she fixed her eyes on Aslan.