We regard God as an airman regards his parachute; it's there for emergencies but he hopes he'll never have to use it.

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.

In the moral sphere, every act of justice or charity involves putting ourselves in the other person's place and thus transcending our own competitive particularity.

The natural life in each of us is something self-centred, something that wants to be petted and admired, to take advantage of other lives, to exploit the whole universe.

The great thing with unhappy times is to take them bit by bit, hour by hour, like an illness. It is seldom the present, the exact present, that is unbearable.

Youth and age touch only the surface of our lives.

Do you not know how bashful friendship is? Friends - comrades - do not look at each other. Friendship would be ashamed.