"My own eyes are not enough for..." - Quote by C S Lewis

“I do not expect old heads on young shoulders.”

“No justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous. Without the aid of trained emotions the intellect is powerless against the animal organism. I had sooner play cards against a man who was quite skeptical about ethics, but bred to believe that ‘a gentleman does not cheat’, than against an irreproachable moral philosopher who had been brought up among sharpers.”

“Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.”

“I speak and the child plays: who can be more serious than we are?”

“In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.”

“The man who goes up in a balloon does not feel as if he were ascending; he only sees the earth sinking deeper below him.”

“Do you remember writing in your diary," he said, "that it did not matter whether I was a friend or an enemy, since I was at least a person who understood you and could be talked to? You were right. I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.”

“Franklin [D. Roosevelt] had a good way of simplifying things. He made people feel that he had a real understanding of things and they felt they had about the same understanding.”

“First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it. We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.”