Love the life you have been given. And be humbled by it. It is not to be despised.

Conscience. Conscience is the ultimate measure of a man.

you can't really separate modernity from history or spiritual concerns from mundane ones. Everything feeds into everything else.

The censors don't bother with fantasy books, especially old ones. They can't understand them. They think it's all kids' stuff. They'd die if they knew what The Chronicles of Narnia were really about.

Once you discover that the world rewards reckless faith, no lesser world is worth contemplating.

Dear child, some stories have no morals. Sometimes darkness and madness are simply that.

Controversy is what mediocre people start because they can't communicate anything meaningful.

Many of us prefer to live in places abandoned by humans. Less work for us. Detroit is very popular.

So the stories aren't just stories, is what you're saying. They're really secret knowledge disguised as stories.""One could say that of all stories, younger brother.

Metaphors: knowledge existing in several states and without contradiction

The few Americans he had encountered in his lifetime had all seemed flat to him, as if freedom weakened one's capacity for intense emotion by demanding too little of it.

All good and evil, whether in the body or in human nature, originates in the soul, and overflows from thence, as if from the head into the eyes.

The hearts of everyone, the feeling is different Everyone in this world, the behavior is different The eyes are all the same.. But everyone's view is different.

Gratitude is a powerful trait.

In spiritual moments we nearly perceive a grand, divine conspiracy of interconnectedness between us and everything.

I believe the nearest I've come to perfect love was with a young coal-miner when I was about 16.

Cleanliness is not next to godliness. It isn't even in the same neighborhood.

We believe in constitutional action in normal times; we believe in revolutionary action in exceptional times.

Don't let worn-out beliefs stop you from moving beyond yourself.

Our system of mass incarceration is better understood as a system of racial and social control than a system of crime prevention or control.

I am the modern, intelligent, independent-type woman. In other words, a girl who can not get a man.