Be confident small immortals. You are not the only voice that all things utter, nor is there eternal silence in the places where you cannot come.

The Son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God." ~ Mere Christianity, By C. S. Lewis

The greatest evils in the world will not be carried out by men with guns, but by men in suits sitting behind desks

Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves.

Oh, I can see it happening, age after age, and growing worse the more you reveal your beauty: the son turning his back on the mother and the bride on her groom, stolen away by this everlasting calling, calling, calling of the gods. Taken where we can't follow. It would be far better for us if you were foul and ravening. We'd rather you drank their blood than stole their hearts. We'd rather they were ours and dead than yours and made immortal.

In each of my friends there is something that only some other friend can fully bring out. By myself I am not large enough to call the whole man into activity; I want other lights than my own to show all his facets... Hence true Friendship is the least jealous of loves. Two friends delight to be joined by a third, and three by a fourth, if only the newcomer is qualified to become a real friend. They can then say, as the blessed souls say in Dante, "Here comes one who will augment our loves." For in this love "to divide is not to take away.

What can be better than to get out a book on Saturday afternoon and thrust all mundane considerations away till next week.