More quotes by C. S. Lewis

"Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives."
"Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success."
"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival."
"Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see."
"If you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without every having noticed it."