We still thought that we were the only two people in the world who were interested in the right kind of things in the right kind of way. C.S. Lewis

The arts are the best Time Machine we have." C. S. Lewis

As the honors accrued, creativity diminished.

The church marched into his heart. Williams never abandon Anglicanism; he pushed at its borders.

He called himself Jack, a plain handshake of a name, a far cry from the Clive Staples he had been christened, and to be Jack was the hard work of a lifetime.

She had responded to the loss of her husband, to poverty, to disease, and to family cruelty with boldness and ingenuity, by opening herself to others, especially to her children and her Church, pouring into these precious vessels her knowledge, hope, and devotion.

He loved his family, his friends, his writing, his painting; he knew their flaws, but they neither surprised nor embittered him.

Resignation is the better part of wisdom.

Tolkien regretted "the degeneration of real curiosity and enthusiasm," and called for research motivated by love of knowledge rather than hunger for a job.