this is a book about something

What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are.

Oh, Adam’s sons, how cleverly you defend yourselves against all that might do you good!

No great wisdom can be reached without sacrifice.

You know me better than you think, you know, and you shall know me better yet.

It was a rich place: as rich as plumcake.

For what you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing: it also depends on what sort of person you are.

That's all YOU know, ' said Digory. 'It's because you're a girl. Girls never want to know anything but gossip and rot about people getting engaged.

That was what it felt like - as if one had always been in that place and never been bored although nothing had ever happened.

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.

Well, hope for your thrilling career - but remember that if there is to be drama in your life somebody must pay the piper in the coin of suffering. If not you - then someone else.

The secret of wealth is that workers are systematically underpaid.

Time cannot be expanded accumulated mortgaged hastened or retarded.

Dead Babies can take care of themselves, dead Babies can´t take things off the shelf.

Something larger is happening than just going to heaven.

He who wants peace must prepare for war.

Be very careful. Giving because we think we will get something back will not work. You must be 100 percent willing to give and never experience any return, or it will not work.

I work hard in the orchard, not for the money anymore, but for something I can't explain. Something worth more than money.

Remember, your prerogative is to govern, and not to serve the things of this world.