"Forgiveness does not mean excusing...." - Quote by C S Lewis

“That fierce imprisonment in the self is but the obverse of the self-giving which is absolute reality.”

“The more imagination the reader has ... the more he will do for himself. He will, at a mere hint from the author, flood wretched material with suggestion and never guess that he is himself chiefly making what he enjoys.”

“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.”

“It doesn't bother me at all. Do I hold any hard feelings? Not at all, ... Life is too short to sit around and hold grudges. I don't hold any whatsoever.”

“Shame makes people abandon their children and drink themselves to death. It also keeps us from true happiness. An apology is a glorious release.”

“Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble.”

“Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him.”

“I believe that pity is a law like justice, and that kindness is a duty like uprightness. That which is weak has a right to the kindness and pity of that which is strong. In the relations of man with the animals...there is a great ethic, scarcely perceived as yet, which will at length break through into the light, and which will be the corollary and the complement to humans ethics. Are there not here unsounded depths for the thinker? Is one to think oneself mad because one has the sentiment of universal pity in one's heart?”

“The jury passing on the prisoner's life may in the sworn twelve have a thief or two guiltier than him they try.”