Joy bursts in our lives when we go about doing the good at hand and not trying to manipulate things and times to achieve joy.

True humility is more like self-forgetfulness than false modesty.

It now seemed to me that all my other guesses had been only self-pleasing dreams spun out of my wishes, but now I was awake.

You would not have called to me unless I had been calling to you," said the Lion.

We do not truly see light, we only see slower things lit by it, so that for us light is on the edge-the last thing we know before things become too swift for us.

Only He who really lived a human life (and I presume that only one did) can fully taste the horror of death.

I have discovered that the people who believe most strongly in the next life do the most good in the present one.