Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are.

You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.

If we commit ourselves to one person for life, this is not, as many people think, a rejection of freedom; rather, it demands the courage to move into all the risks of freedom, and the risk of love which is permanent; into that love which is not possession but participation.

Life is not easy and comfortable, with nothing ever going wrong as long as you buy the right product. It's not true that if you have the right insurance everything is going to be fine. That's not what it's really like. Terrible things happen. And those are the things we learn from.

Because to take away a man's freedom of choice, even his freedom to make the wrong choice, is to manipulate him as though he were a puppet and not a person.

Nothing, no one, is too small to matter. What you do is going to make a difference.

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