Golly,' said Edmund under his breath, 'He's a retired star.

I am sure that God keeps no one waiting unless he sees that it is good for him to wait.

A moderately bad man knows he is not very good: a thoroughly bad man thinks he is alright. This is common sense really. You understand sleep when you are awake, not well you are sleeping.

As long as he doesn't convert it into action, it does not matter how much a man thinks about his repentance.

I was driven to Whipsnade one sunny morning. When we set out I did not believe that Jesus Christ is the son of God, and when we reached the zoo I did. Yet I had not exactly spent the journey in thought. Nor in great emotion. “Emotional” is perhaps the last word we can apply to some of the most important events. It was more like when a man, after a long sleep, still lying motionless in bed, becomes aware that he is now awake.

Humility is self-forgetfulness.

There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.