A philosophy that cannot be lived is no philosophy at all.

Lewis had developed a trademark style, slow enough for note taking, loud enough to rouse the dullest listener, straightforward, abundantly furnished with quotations, and lavish in wit.

A letter Lewis wrote reveals an 18-year-old with the energy of a schoolboy and the tastes of an octogenarian.

In the infancy of society every author is necessarily a poet, because language itself is poetry. – Owen Barfield

Words are catch-basins of experience, fingerprints and footprints of the past that the literary detective may scrutinize in order to sleuth out the history of human consciousness.

Imagination pointed toward truth but could not disclose it directly.

We must picture Oxford, during World War I, not as the neomedieval paradise it would like to be, but as the military compound it was obliged to become.

The arts are the best Time Machine we have." C. S. Lewis

Now he must put into practice all his fine poetic thoughts about romantic love.

Passion does not translate easily into good income.

As is the case with many adolescents, Lewis's increased command over over the things of the world brought with it a corresponding atrophy of the moral sense.

The truth about life will change this world into heaven and you into an immortal spiritual being.

Getting a new job will not change your life. To change your life, change your choices.

If you allow your passion and vitality to remain hidden or unexpressed, you won't live into the fullest expression of who you can be.

My family has a Christmas tradition: Every year, they kill my mom.

I make a real effort to try and live in the real world and not just the dream world.

No piled-up wealth, no social station, no throne, reaches as high as that spiritual plane upon which every human being stands by virtue of his humanity.

I take nothing for granted. I now have only good days, or great days.

Do we indulge our heart, or cater to our fear?

Nothing seems too high or low for the humorist; he is above honor, above faith, preserving sense in religion and sanity in life.

I think love is a really hard thing to define. I think it's multifaceted.