C. S. Lewis

Clive Staples Lewis:

(Belfast, 29 November 1898 – Oxford, 22 November 1963).
Irish-born British writer, professor, man of letters and Christian apologist.

You can make anything by writing.

One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is the shut their eyes to facts.

There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.

Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different.

Everyone thinks forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has to forgive.

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

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

The truth is, of course, that what one regards as interruptions are precisely one’s life.

Humility is not thinking less of yourself, but thinking of yourself less.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

I sat with my anger long enough until she told me her real name was grief.

 

But some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.

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