Helmer: "Before all else you are a wife and a mother." Nora: "That I no longer believe. I believe that before all else I am a human being."

The sea possesses a power over one's moods that has the effect of a will. The sea can hypnotize. Nature in general can do so.

A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.

A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.

It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.

The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.

The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.

Don't use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.

The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority

...I'm no longer prepared to accept what people say and what's written in books. I must think things out for myself, and try to find my own answer.

I don't imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over.

A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.", Frankfurt Book Fair, October 12, 2003]

Aslan" said Lucy "you're bigger"."That is because you are older, little one" answered he."Not because you are?""I am not. But every year you grow, you will find me bigger".

What does not change is the will to change

The pressure began to mount as I kept winning every time and people were anxious to see if I could be beaten.

My body is not a tomb for animals.

Off with their heads!

I do not believe in old age. I do not believe in getting tired.

I can believe things that are true and things that aren't true and I can believe things where nobody knows if they're true or not.

The catalogue of miseries seems to cry out for commercial spots and a station break: the stuff of noonday soap opera.

Ah! never shall the land forget.