"It doesn't really matter whether you grip..." - Quote by C S Lewis

“The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike. Subjectivism about moral values is eternally incompatible with democracy. We and our rulers are of one kind only so long as we are subject to one law. But if there is no Law of Nature, the ethos of any society is the creation of its rulers, educators and conditioners; and every creator stands above and outside his own creation.”

“Affection would not be affection if it was loudly and frequently expressed; to produce it in public is like getting your household furniture out for a move. It did very well in its place, but it looks shabby or tawdry or grotesque in the sunshine.”

“Love, in its own nature, demands the perfecting of the beloved.”

“No lake so still but it has its wave. No circle so perfect but that it has its blur. I would change things for you if I could; As I can't you must take them as they are.”

“The best way to get along with people is not to expect them to be like you.”

“If I were constantly worried about death, I couldn't function. After a while, if your life is more or less constantly in peril, you come to a point where you accept the possibility philosophically.”

“Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable, inasmuch as he has the fountain of reason in him not yet regulated.”

“Oftener than not the old are uncontrollable; Their tempers make them difficult to deal with.”

“Do you respond to life or are you merely reacting to it?”