"And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy."

"We meet no ordinary people in our lives."

"God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way."

"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival."

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

"The human heart is not unchanging (nay, changes almost out of recognition in the twinkling of an eye)..."

"We are always falling in love or quarreling, looking for jobs or fearing to lose them, getting ill and recovering, following public affairs. If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work. The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come."

"The rule of the universe is that others can do for us what we cannot do for ourselves, and one can paddle every canoe except one's own."

"The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one's 'own,' or 'real' life. The truth is of course that what one calls the interruptions are precisely one's real life -- the life God is sending one day by day."

"If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning."

"It is a very funny thing that the sleepier you are, the longer you take about getting to bed."

"The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is."

"Adventures are never fun while you're having them."

"She's the sort of woman who lives for others - you can tell the others by their hunted expression."

"[The decay of Logic results from an] untroubled assumption that the particular is real and the universal is not."

"We can never know what might have been but what is to come is another matter entirely"

"All shall be done, but it may be harder than you think."

"I ended my first book with the words 'no answer.' 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? Only words, words; to be led out to battle against other words."

"Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him."

"The terrible thing, the almost impossible thing, is to hand over your whole self--all your wishes and precautions--to Christ. But it is far easier than what we are all trying to do instead. For what we are trying to do is to remain what we call "ourselves," to keep personal happiness as our great aim in life, and yet at the same time be "good."

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

"Onward and Upward! To Narnia and the North!"