No great wisdom can be reached without sacrifice.

If nothing is self-evident, nothing can be proved. Similarly if nothing is obligatory for its own sake, nothing is obligatory at all.

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

Digory never spoke on the way back, and the others were shy of speaking to him. He was very sad and he wasn't even sure all the time that he had done the right thing; but whenever he remembered the shining tears in Aslan's eyes he became sure.

Ideally, we should like to define a good book as one which 'permits, invites, or compels' good reading

Joy bursts in our lives when we go about doing the good at hand and not trying to manipulate things and times to achieve joy.

It certainly is my opinion that a book worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then.