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

Conscience. Conscience is the ultimate measure of a man.

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.

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

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.

Leadership is not always about your power, it's all about your ability to empower, encourage, and elevate others

The goal of the church is to bring the kingdom answers to the people

Where there's a will, there's a potential for murder

I'm not classically trained or anything, but I'll rip up a dance floor.

Only an individual can imagine, invent, or create. The whole audience of art is an audience of individuals.

I think the 24-hour news cycle has helped exaggerate the differences between the parties. You can always find someone on TV somewhere carping about something. That didn't happen 20 years ago.

Pedagogy, like language itself, can either liberate or imprison ideas, inspire of suffocate constructive thinking.

Raising a daughter is hard work. There's no other way to describe it for me.

Once you have decided to keep a certain pile, it is no longer yours; for you can't spend it.