C.S. Lewis

When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret.  Now that I am 50 I read them openly.  When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness.

You don't have a soul.  You are a soul.  You have a body.

A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.

the only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while conditions are still unfavourable. favourable conditions never come

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.

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

It was when i was happiest that i longed most. It was on happy days when we were up there on the hills, the three of us, with the wind and the sunshine... where you couldn't see Glome or the palace. Do you remember? The colour and the smell, and looking across at the Grey Mountain in the distance? And because it was so beautiful, it set me longing, always longing. Somewhere else there must be more of it. Everything seemed to be saying ,Psyche come! But I couldn't (not yet) come and I didn't know where I was to come to. It almost hurt me. I felt like a bird in a cage when the other birds of its kind are flying home

I believe in Christianity as I believe the sun rises, not only because i can see it but because by it i can see everything else

You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.