The most intense joy, lies not in the having, but in the desire, Delight that never fades, bliss that is eternal, Is only your, when what you most desire, is just out of reach...Anthony Hopkins, from the movie Shadowlands, where he plays C.S. Lewis

Many thousands of people have had the experience of finding the first friend, and it is none the less a wonder; as great a wonder (pace the novelists) as first love, or even greater.

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

We do not want to merely “see” beauty. We want to be united with it, to receive it into ourselves, to become part of it.

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

You die and die and then you are beyond death.

Pooh! Grown-ups are always thinking of uninteresting explanations.