Let there be wicked kings and beheadings, battles and dungeons, giants and dragons, and let the villans be soundly killed at the end of the book. I think it is possible that by confining your child to the blameless stories of life in which nothing at all alarming ever happens, you would fail to banish the terrors, and would succeed in banishing all that can ennoble them or make them endurable.

God is basic Fact. He must not be thought of as a featureless generality. He is the most concrete thing there is.

All killing is not murder any more than all sexual intercourse is adultery.

Each generation exercises power over its successors: and each, in so far as it modifies the environment bequeathed to it and rebels against tradition, resists and limits the power of its predecessors.

If the world is meaningless, then so are we; if we mean something, we do not mean alone.

Unless thought is valid we have no reason to believe in the real universe.

When you have reached your own room, be kind to those Who have chosen different doors and to those who are still in the hall.