The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That's the deal. - C. S. Lewis

When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty, I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.

One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts.

I hope, said the third, that your wanderings in lonely places do not mean that you have any of the romantic virus still in your blood. His name was Mr. Humanist.