The obvious is the hardest thing of all to point out to anyone who has genuinely lost sight of it.

When any significant change takes place in the moral standards of a community, it is immediately reflected in a general shifting of the meanings of common words.

There is no surer or more illuminating way of reading a man's character, and perhaps a little of his past history, than by observing the contexts in which he prefers to use certain words.

When the velocity of progress increases beyond a certain point, it becomes indistinguishable from crisis.

...the poet, while creating anew, is likely to be in a sense restoring something old.

And what is the very essence of poetry if it is not this 'metaphorical language'-this marking of the before unapprehended relations of things?

Lewis had developed a trademark style, slow enough for note taking, loud enough to rouse the dullest listener, straightforward, abundantly furnished with quotations, and lavish in wit.

A letter Lewis wrote reveals an 18-year-old with the energy of a schoolboy and the tastes of an octogenarian.

In the infancy of society every author is necessarily a poet, because language itself is poetry. – Owen Barfield

Words are catch-basins of experience, fingerprints and footprints of the past that the literary detective may scrutinize in order to sleuth out the history of human consciousness.

Imagination pointed toward truth but could not disclose it directly.

My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent

The rooms were very still while the pages were softly turned and the winter sunshine crept in to touch the bright heads and serious faces with a Christmas greeting.

Love is a forest fire ignited by a firefly

Savasana is being without was, being without will be. It is being without anyone who is.

I have so much respect for what's funny.

There might be many similarities between Erdogan and Putin. We can see that in the current developments, unfortunately. But Viktor Orban seriously does not fit in that list.

Therefore we Christians, in turn, are obliged not to tolerate their wanton and conscious blasphemy.

Once a man sees what is possible, and makes just a few changes, a whole new world opens up where he finds opportunities that he couldn’t see before.

One reason the United States finds itself at the edge of a foreign policy disaster is its underinformed citizenry, a key weakness in democracy.

It does the sheep no good to preach the goodness of a diet of grass, if the wolves are of a different mind.