God, in the end, gives people what they most want, including freedom from himself. What could be more fair?

Total war is the most humane in the long run.

If the universe is so bad...how on earth did human beings ever come to attribute it to the activity of a wise and good Creator?

Though under earth, and throneless now I be Yet while I lived all earth was under me.

When we are such as He can love without impediment, we shall in fact be happy.

Friendship is the greatest of worldly goods. Certainly to me it is the chief happiness of life. If I had to give a piece of advice to a young man about a place to live, I think I should say, 'sacrifice almost everything to live where you can be near your friends.'

I was the lion who forced you to join with Aravis. I was the cat who comforted you among the houses of the dead. I was the lion who drove the jackals from you while you slept. I was the lion who gave the horses the new strength of fear for the last mill so that you should reach King Lune in time. And I was the lion you do not remember who pushed the boat in which you lay, a child near death, so that it came to shore where a man sat, wakeful at midnight, to receive you.