"If we let ourselves, we shall always..." - Quote by C S Lewis

“It is only our bad temper that we put down to being tired or worried or hungry; we put our good temper down to ourselves.”

“Here, I think, lies our real dilemma. Probably we cannot, certainly we shall not, retrace our steps. We are tamed animals (some with kind, some with cruel, masters) and should probably starve if we got out of our cage. That is one horn of the dilemma. But in an increasingly planned society, how much of what I value can survive? That is the other horn.”

“And for all I can tell, the only difference is that what many see we call a real thing, and what only one sees we call a dream. But things that many see may have no taste or moment in them at all, and things that are shown only to one may be spears and water-spouts of truth from the very depth of truth.”

“I do regard spinning and weaving as a necessary part of any national system of education.”

“Think they work you too hard? Think of poor Ali Sard. He has to mow grass in his uncle's backyard and its quick growing grass and it grows as he mows it the faster he mows it the faster he grows it. And all that his stingy old uncle will pay for his shoving mower around the hay is piffulous pay of two dooklas a day. And Ali can't live on such piffulous pay!”

“Let us save the tomorrows for work.”

“Don't mistake movement for achievement. It's easy to get faked out by being busy. The question is: Busy doing what?”

“It's amazing how many things busy people are doing that never will be missed.”

“It is tranquil people who accomplish much.”