The only things we can keep are the things we freely give to God. What we try to keep for ourselves is just what we are sure to lose. - C. S. Lewis

I live in the Managerial Age, in a world of "Admin." The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid "dens of crime" that Dickens loved to paint. It is not done even in concentration camps and labour camps. In those we see its final result. But it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed, and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voice. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the offices of a thoroughly nasty business concern.

A sum can be put right: but only by going back till you find the error and working it afresh from that point, never by simply going on.

Even in social life, you will never make a good impression on other people until you stop thinking about what sort of impression you're making.