I would do any honest thing under the sun to know C. S. Lewis, and so am very grateful to you.

One's homesickness for Heaven finds at least an inn there; and it's an inn on the right road.

And I used to assemble the family to hear because I thought that they were so good that even from the point of view of enjoyment people shouldn't miss them, and I got every word of his that I could, and I could see by hard argument there was only the one way for it.

It seems to me that in our lifetime we have passed from the wreck of liberal humanism to the beginning of a new recognition of dogma: isn't it rather tremendous?

Are you really going to see Lewis? One of the few people it's worth getting excited over, I think. I know he is a good poet. I daresay he never heard of me, but I wish you would tell him that his work is the joy of my life.

I am much interested and honoured by what you tell me of C. S. Lewis.

I would do any honest thing under the sun to know C. S. Lewis, and so am very grateful to you.

There were air raids at night. The factory was dark and dirty. And I remember thinking - well - I must find somebody or something because like this I cannot go on.

I had to be intellectually satisfied as well as emotionally because at that time of life one doesn't just fall into it in adolescent emotion, and I was satisfied at every point that it was the one way and the hard way to do things.

Near the sun is the center of the universe.

Christians should never fail to sense the operation of an angelic glory. It forever eclipses the world of demonic powers, as the sun does a candle's light.

Remember, you can always find East by staring directly at the sun.

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.

I don't ask for the meaning of the song of a bird or the rising of the sun on a misty morning. There they are, and they are beautiful.

The sun don't shine on the same dog's ass all the time.

Of all creatures in this visible world, light is the most glorious; of all light, the light of the sun without compare excels the rest.

The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.

A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked.

Thought the sun is gone, I have a light.

A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.

That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will rise.

To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun.

And so we remained till the red of the dawn began to fall through the snow gloom. I was desolate and afraid, and full of woe and terror. But when that beautiful sun began to climb the horizon life was to me again.

Men shut their doors against a setting sun.

Every day you must arise and say to your heart, I have suffered enough and now I must live because the light of the sun must not be wasted, it must not be lost without an eye to appreciate it.

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.

Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity.

Only those within whose own consciousness the sun rise and set, the leaves burgeon and wither, can be said to be aware of what living is.

The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul.

She missed him the days when some pretext served to take him away from her, just as one misses the sun on a cloudy day without having thought much about the sun when it was shining.

Oh, my God, this amazing cool breeze is coming through my window and the sun is shining. I'm happy.

I'm not too good at lying still in the sun.

Every day is a good day to be alive, whether the sun's shining or not.

Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.

The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted.

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.

To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes.

Eisenhower had about the most expressive face I ever painted, I guess. Just like an actor's. Very mobile. When he talked, he used all the facial muscles. And he had a great, wide mouth that I liked. When he smiled, it was just like the sun came out.

And if you dont believe the sun will rise, stand alone and greet the coming night in the last remaining light.

I've never done Botox in my life. But I've probably tried everything else under the sun.

Unfortunately, the young generation, who I believe have their own place in the sun like I had mine; but I wish it was possible there were other ways to have them understand this music was here before they came, and the reason that it was here.

The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening.

Moreover, since the sun remains stationary, whatever appears as a motion of the sun is really due rather to the motion of the earth.

The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.

The sun too penetrates into privies, but is not polluted by them.

To love and to be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

Yeah we all shine on, like the moon, and the stars, and the sun.