Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
C. S. Lewis

The trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.
C. S. Lewis

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You too? I thought I was the only one.
C. S. Lewis

Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
C. S. Lewis

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.
C. S. Lewis

You don’t have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body.
C.S. Lewis

We read to know that we are not alone.
C.S. Lewis

You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.
C.S. Lewis

A children’s story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children’s story in the slightest.
C.S. Lewis

No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.
C.S. Lewis

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
C.S. Lewis

Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.
C.S. Lewis

Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.
C.S. Lewis

You can make anything by writing.
C.S. Lewis

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

The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That’s the deal.
C.S. Lewis

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

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
C.S. Lewis