Add little to little and there will be a big pile.

My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.

A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.

Make the workmanship surpass the materials.

Love is no assignment for cowards.

Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.

The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.

Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.

If you want to be loved, be lovable.

I'm on Aslan's side even if there isn't any Aslan to lead it. I'm going to live as like a Narnian as I can even if there isn't any Narnia.

In order to know your ministry, you need to start serving and be under the leadership of someone, who already knows his ministry

Those who seek to listen to their own inner voice forget to listen to the judgment of others.

Woman must come of age by herself -- she must find her true center alone.

I wondered about her chicken-and-egg relationship with Dad. Which came first? Her helplessness or his controlling?

Heaven is beautiful because it is the expression of that which is the perfection of beauty.

In 2000, I fell in love. I had never felt anything like that before in my life. It kind of took me over.

Every once in awhile, when you can see shades of the person's real interior life, I think that's interesting.

Getters don't get - givers get.

Coraline wondered why so few of the adults she met made any sense.