You would not call a man humane for ceasing to set mousetraps if he did so because he believed there were no mice in the house.

We meet no ordinary people in our lives.

I object to that remark very strongly! - The Magician's Nephew

Fallen man is not simply an imperfect creature who needs improvement: he is a rebel who must lay down his arms. Laying down your arms, surrendering, saying you are sorry, realizing that you have been on the wrong track and getting ready to start life over again from the ground floor-that is the only way out of a "hole." This process of surrender-this movement full speed astern-is repentance.

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.

Friendship (as the ancients saw) can be a school of virtue, but also (as they did not see) a school of vice. It is ambivalent. It makes good men better and bad men worse.

Pilate was merciful till it became risky.