I have met a thousand scamps; but I never met one who considered himself so. Self-knowledge isn't so common.

The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.

An easy-going husband is the one indispensable comfort of life.

Emulation is active virtue; envy is brooding malice.

Scandals are like dandelion seeds--they are arrow-headed, and stick where they fall, and bring forth and multiply fourfold.

Petty laws breed great crimes.

Intensely selfish people are always very decided as to what they wish. They do not waste their energies in considering the good of others.

Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.

Music is not a science any more than poetry is. It is a sublime instinct, like genius of all kinds.

I do not wish to be a coward like the father of mankind and throw the blame upon a woman.

Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.

Complexity is the main enemy of security.

Like the practice of breath control, meditation on the forms of God, repetition of mantras, food restrictions, etc., are but aids for rendering the mind quiescent.

The best reason to go to the movies is to be with other people. Eating the popcorn, being with other people you don't know.

I think everyone has their personal stands, and everyone has challenges in their life.

No man who has not sat in the assemblies of men can know the light, odd and uncertain ways in which decisions are often arrived at.

You know you're rich when you have to drive for a half hour to get to your house once you're on your property.

Do I mind being called a chick-lit writer? Well, it's not the worst thing that could happen.

Live Like a Narnian: Christian Discipleship in C.S. Lewis’s Chronicles

Fortune does not change [people], it unmasks them.

Men are disposed to live honestly, if the means of doing so are open to them.