When the most important things in our life happen we quite often do not know, at the moment, what is going on. A man does not always say to himself, "hullo! i'm growing up." It is only when he looks back that he realises what has happened and recognises it as what people call "growing up.

People who bore one another should meet seldom; people who interest one another, often.

Look for the valleys, the green places, and fly through them. There will always be a way through.

Man was appointed by God to have dominion over the beasts, and everything a man does to an animal is either a lawful exercise or a sacrilegious abuse of an authority by divine right.

God descends to re-ascend. He comes down; down from the heights of absolute being into time and space, down into humanity ... down to the very roots and sea-bed of the nature He has created. But He goes down to come up again and bring the ruined world up with Him.

The world does not need more Christian literature. What it needs is more Christians writing good literature.

I don't want him to live forever, and I know that he's not going to live forever whether I want him to or not.