I like the fact that in ancient Chinese art the great painters always included a deliberate flaw in their work: human creation is never perfect.

Give the public the 'image' of what it thinks it ought to be, or what television commercials or glossy magazine ads have convinced us we ought to be, and we will buy more of the product, become closer to the image, and further from reality.

To grow up is to find the small part you are playing in the extraordinary drama written by somebody else.

For the things that are seen are temporal, but things that are unseen are eternal.

Thinking I'm a moron gives people something to feel smug about," Charles Wallace said. "Why should I disillusion them?

In the evening of life we shall be judged on love, and not one of us is going to come off very well, and were it not for my absolute faith in the loving forgiveness of my Lord I could not call on him to come.

A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.