How well it was said, " answered the fisherman, "that swords can be kept off with shields but the Eye of Wisdom pierces through every defense!

Do not dare not to dare.

Onward and Upward! To Narnia and the North!

But one of the worst results of being a slave and being forced to do things is that when there is no one to force you any more you find you have almost lost the power of forcing yourself.

But as long as you know you're nobody special, you'll be a very decent sort of Horse, on the whole, and taking one thing with another.

We are a little land. And little lands on the borders of a great empire were always hateful to the lords of the great empire. He longs to blot them out, gobble them up.

And this new air was so delicious, and all his old life seemed so far away, that he forgot for a moment about his bruises and his aching muscles.

O my mistress, do not by any means destroy yourself, for if you live you may yet have good fortune but all the dead are dead alike!

One of the drawbacks about adventures is that when you come to the most beautiful places you are often too anxious and hurried to appreciate them.

Daughter, " said the Hermit, "I have now lived a hundred and nine winters in this world and have never met any such thing as Luck.

Oh-my-Father-and-oh-the-delight-of-my-eyes, " began the young man, muttering the words very quickly and sulkily and not at all as if the Tisroc were the delight of his eyes.

Pressure is an artist

War's a racket. No doubt. But war is a racket for the politicians, not the soldiers.

Twenty per cent of the people in volunteer groups do ninety per cent of the work.

I never felt settled or calm. You can't really commit to life when you feel that.

We do not ask more of the wealthy to punish success. We do it to create more success stories.

God and I have a great relationship but we both see other people.

You speak of Lord Byron and me; there is this great difference between us. He describes what he sees I describe what I imagine. Mine is the hardest task.

Let not England forget her precedence of teaching nations how to live.

The artist in his calling of interpreter creates because he must. He is so much of a voice that, for him, silence is like death

My friend has a baby. I'm recording all the noises he makes so later I can ask him what he meant.