“Friendship … is born at the moment when one man says to another “What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .” ― C.S. Lewis     “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.” ― C.S. Lewis     “To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe…

“Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.” -Carol Burnett “You have to go through the falling down in order to learn to walk. It helps to know that you can survive it. That’s an education in itself.” -Carol Burnett “When you have a dream, you’ve got to grab it and never let go.” -Carol Burnett “Because nobody goes though life without a scar.” -Carol Burnett “Everybody I know who is funny, it’s in them. You can teach timing, or some people are able to tell a joke, though I don’t like to tell jokes. But I think you have to be born with a sense of…

There is a great deal of hard lying in the world; especially among people whose characters are above suspicion. —Benjamin Jowett     The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.—Benjamin Jowett   Learning obscures as well as illustrates; it heaps up chaff when there is no more wheat. —Benjamin Jowett   The metaphysical philosopher from his point of view recognizes mathematics as an instrument of education, which strengthens the power of attention, develops the sense of order and the faculty of construction, and enables the mind to grasp under the simple formulae the quantitative differences of physical phenomena.—Benjamin Jowett  …