[Repentance] means unlearning all the self-conceit and self -will that we have been training ourselves into... It means killing part of yourself, under-going a kind of death.

Unless I believe in God, I cannot believe in thought: so I can never use thought to disbelieve in God.

Wouldn't he know without being asked?' said Polly. 'I've no doubt he would,' said the Horse (still with his mouth full). 'But I've a sort of an idea he likes to be asked.

We cannot fully understand the relations of time and choice until we are beyond both.

We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even the audience. We are on the stage.

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

We need not despair even in our worst, for our failures are forgiven. The only fatal thing is to sit down content with anything less than perfection.