Clive Staples Lewis

No creo que God exactly wants us to be happy, he wants us to be capable of loving and being loved, he wants us to mature, and I suggest that precisely because God loves us he granted us the gift of suffering; or to put it another way: pain is the megaphone that God uses to awaken a world of the deaf; because we are like blocks of stone, from which the sculptor gradually forms the figure of a man, the blows of his chisel that cause us so much harm also make us more perfect.

The future is something that everyone reaches at a rate of sixty minutes per hour, no matter what they do or who they are.

No man knows how bad he is until he has tried to be good. You can only know the strength of a wind by trying to walk against it, not by letting it carry you.

Ninety percent of all solid and lasting happiness is owed to affection.

The human mind is incapable of inventing new values, not even a new primary color.

We laugh at honor and then we are surprised to find traitors among us.

We have prepared men to think of the future as a promised land reached by heroes, not as something anyone reaches at a rate of sixty minutes per hour, no matter what they do.

Friendship does not have a survival value, but rather it is one of the things that gives value to survival.

God whispers and speaks to the conscience through pleasure, but shouts through pain: pain is His megaphone to awaken a slumbering world.

If you seek the truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you seek comfort, you will find neither truth nor comfort.

The task of the modern educator is not to prune the forests, but to water the deserts.

Any fool can write in scholarly language. The true test is everyday language.