C.S. Lewis

Faith, in the sense in which I am here using the word, is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.

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

No great wisdom can be reached without sacrifice.

I was with book, as a woman is with child.

Wrong will be right, when Aslan comes in sight,At the sound of his roar, sorrows will be no more,When he bares his teeth, winter meets its death,And when he shakes his mane, we shall have spring again.

You know me better than you think, you know, and you shall know me better yet.

Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.

A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.

I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself the answer. Before your face questions die away. What other answer would suffice?

Aslan: You doubt your value. Don't run from who you are.

There are a dozen views about everything until you know the answer. Then there's never more than one.

Adventures are never fun while you're having them.

It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.

Affliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary person for some sort of an extraordinary destiny.

And she never could remember; and ever since that day what Lucy means by a good story is a story which reminds her of the forgotten story in the Magician's Book.

The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That's the deal.

Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.