As Venus within Eros does not really aim at pleasure, so Eros does not aim at happiness. We may think he does, but when he is brought to the test it proves otherwise... For it is the very mark of Eros that when he is in us we had rather share unhappiness with the Beloved than be happy on any other terms.

Friendship is born at that moment when one man says to another: "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . ."

Good and evil increase at compound interest. That's why the little decisions we make every day are of infinite importance.

It costs God nothing, so far as we know, to create nice things: but to convert rebellious wills cost Him crucifixion.

The claim to equality, outside of the strictly political field, is made only by those who feel themselves to be in some way inferior.

I wrote this story for you, but when I began it I had not realized that girls grow quicker than books. As a result you are already too old for fairy tales, and by the time it is printed and bound you will be older still. But some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again. You can then take it down from some upper shelf, dust it, and tell me what you think of it. I shall probably be too deaf to hear, and too old to understand a word you say, but I shall still be your affectionate Godfather, C. S. Lewis.

Total war is the most humane in the long run.