There was the cruel kind of Eustace silence.

What is too absurd to be believed is believed because it is too absurd to be a lie.

We learn and experience ourselves only through suffering

I have come home at last! This is my real country! I belong here. This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it till now... Come further up, come further in!

The Kindle is the most successful electronic book-reading tablet so far, but that's not saying much; Silicon Valley is littered with the corpses of e-book reader projects.

The only ones who can really benefit by consulting the model are those who can produce their effect without a model.

Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty.

I had been performing since I was 5, so it wasn't like I hadn't been on a stage before. I was always older than my age. That's my nature. I've always been a kind of mature kid.

Nature has circumscribed the field of life within small dimensions, but has left the field of glory unmeasured.

It is at our mother's knee that we acquire our noblest and truest and highest ideals.

All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.