C.S. Lewis

"There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes."

"[The decay of Logic results from an] untroubled assumption that the particular is real and the universal is not."

"A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest."

"The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That's the deal."

"If I discover within myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world."

"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else."

"Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that's the whole art and joy of words."

"Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable."

"The rule of the universe is that others can do for us what we cannot do for ourselves, and one can paddle every canoe except one's own."

"The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is."

"I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself the answer. Before your face questions die away. What other answer would suffice?"

"Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable."

"It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between."

"We are what we believe we are!"

"The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are."

"The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts."

"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else."

"You can make anything by writing."

"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me."

"You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you."