C.S. Lewis

The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.

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

I didn’t go to religion to make me happy. I always knew a bottle of Port would do that. If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable, I certainly don’t recommend Christianity.

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

You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.

The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable.