When I'm older I'll understand" said Lucy, " I am older and I don't think I want to understand", replied Edmund

We hear a great deal about the rudeness of the rising generation. I am an oldster myself and might be expected to take the oldsters' side, but in fact I have been far more impressed by the bad manners of parents to children than by those of children to parents.

Remember, he is not, like you, a pure spirit. Never having been a human (Oh that abominable advantage of the Enemy's) you don't realize how enslaved they are to the pressure of the ordinary.

For every one pupil who needs to be guarded against a weak excess of sensibility there are three who need to be awakened from the slumber of cold vulgarity. The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts.

As for all I can tell, the only difference is that what many see we call a real thing, and what only one sees we call a dream.

Things never happen the same way twice.

Once people stop believing in God, the problem is not that they will believe in nothing; rather, the problem is that they will believe anything.