C. S. Lewis Great Quotations

No great wisdom can be reached without sacrifice.

The sane would do no good if they made themselves mad to help madmen.

There is no other day. All days are present now. This moment contains all moments.

Edmund, who was becoming a nastier person every minute, thought that he had scored a great success, and went on at once to say, 'There she goes again. What's the matter with her?

The student is half afraid to meet one of the great philosophers face to face. He feels himself inadequate and thinks he will not understand him. But if he only knew, the great man, just because of his greatness, is much more intelligible than his modern commentator. The simplest student will be able to understand, if not all, yet a very great deal of what Plato said; but hardly anyone can understand some modern books on Platonism.

This moment contains all moments.

Good, as it ripens, becomes continually more different not only from evil but from other good.

That thing is Freedom: the gift whereby ye most resemble your Maker and are yourselves part of eternal reality.

Heaven is reality itself. All that is fully real is Heavenly. For all that can be shaken will be shaken and only the unshakeable remains.

If you never take risks, you'll never accomplish great things. Everybody dies, but not everyone has lived.

Some people write heavily, some write lightly. I prefer the light approach because I believe there is a great deal of false reverence about. There is too much solemnity and intensity in dealing with sacred matters; too much speaking in holy tones.