A sign of a culture that has lost its faith - Moral collapse follows upon spiritual collapse.

It is better to forget about yourself altogether.

If nothing is self-evident, nothing can be proved. Similarly if nothing is obligatory for its own sake, nothing is obligatory at all.

Friends are like coals in a fire - together, they glow; apart, they grow cold.

The real job of every moral teacher is to keep bringing us back to the simple principles, which we're so anxious not to see.

Once when I had remarked on the affection quite often found between cat and dog, my friend replied, "Yes. But I bet no dog would ever confess it to the other dogs.

All right, beautiful. You've got me tied down to this stone table, and there's a knife in your hand that says you get to rule Narnia for another hundred years. So maybe I die, and winter goes on. Maybe the hunger and the darkness and the fear never end. But as long as the children believe in me, I know that Aslan will live again. I, the Great Lion, Son of The Emperor Over The Sea, will live again and -- aaaaauugh!!