I don’t underestimate knowledge. But we get into trouble when we confuse it with truth.
Hold me in peace while sleeping. Wake me with the sun’s smiling. With pure water slake my thirst. Let me be merry in your love.
For me, this book activates both transparency and resistance. It urges us to open ourselves up to those hurts, those tribulations, those disappointments, those doubts, those uncertainties. All of whic...
Don't be afraid to be afraid.
But she was one of those people who change very little between twenty and sixty. Instead of growing and developing into whatever kind of creatures they are, slowly and consistently, they have three pe...
Are you fighting the Black Thing? Meg asked. Oh, yes, Aunt Beast replied. In doing that, we can never relax. We are called according to His purpose, and whom He calls, them He also justifies. Of cours...
Humility is throwing oneself away in complete concentration on something or someone else.
Prayer was never meant to be magic,' Mother said.'Then why bother with it?' Suzy scowled.'Because it's an act of love,' Mother said.
Inspiration usually comes during work rather than before it.
Working
Us when you aren’t happy. But I must know what happens to the children, the Medium said. It’s my worst trouble, getting fond. If I didn’t get fond I could be happy all the time. Oh, well, ho hum, I ma...
Resulting in the appearance in the offspring of a character which is not present in the parents but which is potentially transmissible to its offspring.
Your planet does not deal gently with lovers of peace.
We are a generation which is crying loudly to tear down all structure in order to find freedom, and discovering, when order is demolished, that instead of freedom we have death.
Thou cannot harm a butterfly, without troubling a star.
There is in God, some say, a deep but dazzling darkness.
There always have been and there always will be people who have been corrupted into enjoying any excuse for cruelty.
The truly great books are flawed: The Brothers Karamazov is unwieldy in structure; a present-day editor would probably want to cut the Grand Inquisitor scene because it isn't necessary to the plot. Fo...
Sorry. I get attacks of quotitis every once in a while. It's a very rare disease with no cure. It usually attacks older people, and here i am afflicted with it at my tender age.
So the challenge I face with children is the redemption of adulthood. We must make it evident that maturity is the fulfillment of childhood and adolescence, not a diminishing; that it is an affirmatio...