"Besides being complicated, reality, in my experience,..." - Quote by C S Lewis

“We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.”

“In those days a boy on the classical side officially did almost nothing but classics. I think this was wise; the greatest service we can to education today is to teach few subjects. No one has time to do more than a very few things well before he is twenty, and when we force a boy to be a mediocrity in a dozen subjects we destroy his standards, perhaps for life.”

“The standard that measures two things is something different from either. You are, in fact, comparing them both with some Real Morality, admitting that there is such a thing as a real Right, independent of what people think, and that some people's ideas get nearer to that real Right than others.”

“Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.”

“I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.”

“Today, when I saw you, I realized that what is between us is nothing more than an illusion.”

“Go out of the house to see the moon, and 't is mere tinsel; it will not please as when its light shines upon your necessary journey. The beauty that shimmers in the yellow afternoons of October, who could ever clutch it? Go forth to find it, and it is gone: 't is only a mirage as you look from the windows of diligence.”

“A gun will give you the body, not the bird”

“It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports.”