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

Thus, and not otherwise, the world was made. Either something or nothing must depend on individual choices.

Jesus produced mainly three effects: hatred, terror, adoration. There was no trace of people expressing mild approval.

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 event of falling in love... in one high bound it has overleaped the massive wall of our selfhood; it has made appetite itself altruistic, tossed personal happiness aside as a triviality and planted the interests of another in the centre of our being.

It's always winter but it's never Christmas.

Art can teach without at all ceasing to be art.