CS Lewis Quotes

Yet what are all such gaieties to me whose thoughts are full of indices and surds?

But oh, beamish nephew, beware of the day, If your Snark be a Boojum! for then You will softly and suddenly vanish away, And never be met with again!

In another moment down went Alice after it, never once considering how in the world she was to get out again.

But then, shall I never get any older than I am now? That'll be a comfort, one way -- never to be an old woman -- but then -- always to have lessons to learn!

You are old Father William,' the young man said, 'and your hair has become very white; and yet you incessantly stand on your head-do you think, at your age, it is right?

And how do you know that you're mad?

Ill try the whole cause, and condemn you to death.

The Mad Hatter: "Would you like some wine?" Alice: "Yes..." The Mad Hatter: "We haven't any and you're too young.

Men meet; mountains, never.

The scope of art is practically boundless; it does not begin and end with the painting of pictures and the modeling of statues; where there is room for workmanship there is room for it.

The importance of music extends well beyond its performance.

The swim at Deception Island was by far the hardest swim I've ever done. Antarctica is a very unforgiving environment. If you don't train properly, you'll die.

Wars might come and go, but the seven o'clock news lives forever.

I can't go to the cinema. I go to the bathroom in a petrol station and people come in there for autographs. It's tough but I knew that was going to be the case.

It was my 44th win [in Monaco]; 44 is my race number; and it's been my number since I was 8. And it's my family's number as well. So it was a special day, for sure.

Beyond any technique, relationships are what heal.

Architecture is either the prophecy of an unformed society or the tomb of a finished one.

The Fujiyama of Architecture?at once a lofty mountain and a national shrine.

After all, if it comes to that, there is really neither Ogun nor Jesus! There are only mystified forms of our consciousness.

There is great pain in all love, but we don't care, it's worth it.

Very few things which are really worth achieving come easily. Sometimes they do, but most of the time you really have to work hard and cleverly.

I think every child in every country, not just South Africa, every year should go to a national park, and it should be part of their basic curriculum.

The African prisoners are orderly and peaceable among themselves.

Society evolves not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human beings to comprehend each other.

Things are bound to begin happening if you've got your wits about you. You create the lucky accidents.

The physics of motion provides one of the clearest examples of the counter-intuitive and unexpected nature of science.

Naturally, I have compensated in my adult years by owning very large numbers of books.

About 1900 my parents came to the United States as children from what was then the Polish area of Russia.

In their leaders, advisers, and experts, people much prefer overconfidence, total certainty, to any kind of doubt.

In Bakersfield, California, a Mexican strawberry picker with an income of $14,000 and no English was lent every penny he needed to buy a house for $724,000.

Everything, in retrospect, is obvious. But if everything were obvious, authors of histories of financial folly would be rich . . .

The CDO was, in effect, a credit laundering service for the residents of Lower Middle Class America. For Wall Street it was a machine that turned lead into gold.

Book tours are almost designed to beat out of an author any affection he has for his book.

It is a simple chemical reaction that has nothing to do with fusion.

Seeing results flow from my gifts is my greatest pleasure as a philanthropist - whether exonerating a jailed innocent or completing a Frank Gehry building. I want to enjoy my philanthropy.

I have so much respect for people that are my elders. You aren't going to hear me cursing around people that are 60 and 70 years old.

I've got kids that are always watching and I taught them to always finish something you started.

There's one secret to hitting hard, and that is to completely dedicate your body. That's the difference between a man going forward and a man going backward, no matter how big he is.

Every day, we've got to do something physical. It's mind, body and spirit.

Life is about being a versatile athlete and training in all realms of life.

I've always said to the refs to not be the ones to decide the game. Let the players dictate the outcome.

With all the things I've been through, the No. 1 thing that I've learned is that we're supposed to help people through this world.

When artists who are not associated with the typical infrastructure get recognition, that becomes a cultural movement.

I love history, cultural and religious studies, philosophy, photography and traveling.

Hip-hop music was something I grew up with, it was something that I loved since I was a little kid, and it's something that I chose to partake in an early age.

Thinking is more stinking than drinking, but to feel is for real.

Mastery is in the reaching, not in the arriving.

You have more people that love you than you know.

Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

Funny how the world always praises its opera-singers so much and pays 'em so well and then starves its shoemakers, and yet it needs good shoes so much more than it needs opera--or war or fiction.