This is my password," said the King as he drew his sword. "The light is dawning, the lie broken. Now guard thee, miscreant, for I am Tirian of Narnia.

We must beware of the Past, mustn't we? I mean that any fixing of the mind on old evils beyond what is absolutely necessary for repenting our own sins and forgiving those of others is certainly useless and usually bad for us. Notice in Dante that the lost souls are entirely concerned with their past! Not so the saved.

It's all love or sex these days. Friendship is almost as quaint and outdated a notion as chastity. Soon friends will be like the elves and the pixies - fabulous mythical creatures from a distant past.

When the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running in the opposite direction appears to have lost his mind.

You and I have need of the strongest spell that can be found to wake us from the evil enchantment of worldliness.

The laws of thought are also the laws of things: of things in the remotest space and the remotest time.

God has infinite attention to spare for each one of us.