"Everyone says that forgiveness is a lovely..." - Quote by C S Lewis

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

“Grief ... gives life a permanently provisional feeling. It doesn't seem worth starting anything. I can't settle down. I yawn, I fidget, I smoke too much. Up till this I always had too little time. Now there is nothing but time. Almost pure time, empty successiveness.”

“Laziness means more work in the long run.”

“Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.”

“Look at children...If they feel angry with someone,they express it, and then it is finished.They can still play with that person the following day.”

“Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the republic of the guillotine.”

“Traveling is like gambling: it is always connected with winning and losing and generally where it is least expected we receive, more or less than what we hoped for.”

“Don't look at the world with your hands in your pockets. To write about it you have to reach out and touch it.”

“I can imagine it's hard to make a relationship last. I wouldn't know.”