Where I come from, they don't think much of men who are bossed about by their wives.

A clever arrangement of bad eggs will never make a good omelet.

In our own case we accept excuses too easily; in other people's, we do not accept them easily enough.

This is the land of Narnia,' said the Faun, 'where we are now; all that lies between the lamp-post and the great castle of Cair Paravel on the eastern sea.

Because, as we know, almost anything can be read into any book if you are determined enough. This will be especially impressed on anyone who has written fantastic fiction. He will find reviewers, both favourable and hostile, reading into his stories all manner of allegorical meanings which he never intended. (Some of the allegories thus imposed on my own books have been so ingenious and interesting that I often wish I had thought of them myself.)

A real desire to believe all the good you can of others and to make others as comfortable as you can will solve most of the problems.

Love is the great conqueror of lust.