C.S. Lewis

The home is the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose, and that is to support the ultimate career.

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The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only - and that is to support the ultimate career.

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I do not think either virginity or old age contemptible, and some of the shrewdest minds I have met inhabited the bodies of old maids.

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In great literature, I become a thousand different men but still remain myself.

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I'm on Aslan's side even if there isn't any Aslan to lead it. I'm going to live as like a Narnian as I can even if there isn't any Narnia.

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To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.

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If you love deeply, you're going to get hurt badly. But it's still worth it.

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How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

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What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.

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Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.

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With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere.

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Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.

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Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.

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The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

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The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

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I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

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Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.

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You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.

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We are not living in a world where all roads are radii of a circle and where all, if followed long enough, will therefore draw gradually nearer and finally meet at the centre: rather in a world where every road, after a few miles, forks into two, and each of those into two again, and at each fork, you must make a decision.

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Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.

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Quotes by C.S. Lewis