C.S. Lewis

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream another dream.

The best way is always the simplest. The attics of the world are cluttered up with complicated failures.

“I can’t do it” never accomplished anything; “I will try” has performed miracles.

There can be no lasting peace where hatred exists. Hatreds will continue to arise as long as the causes of war are not rooted out and exposed.

If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.

I realize that advice is worth what it costs – that is, nothing.

There are certain things we come into this world having to defeat.

Be not afraid of going slowly, be afraid only of standing still.

Youth should not be slandered. Boy nature and girl nature are less repressed and therefore more wholesome today than before. If they at times seem unimpressed by their elders, it is probably because we make a matter of authority what should be a matter of conference. These young people are new people sent to this scene by Destiny to take our places. They come with new visions to fulfill, new powers to exploit.

You are writing your children’s future with your answers.

Well, as a kid I did not get Shakespeare. I just never understood it.

The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.

Life did not stop, and one had to live.

You are mine, and that means I am on your side even when no one else is.

Smugglin’ that by me? That’s like tryin’ to smuggle sunrise past a rooster.

We don’t see the things the way they are. We see things the way WE are.