Indeed the safest road to Hell is the gradual one--the gentle slope$$$ soft underfoot$$$ without sudden turnings$$$ without milestones$$$ without signposts$$$...Your affectionate uncle$$$ Screwtape.

When we lose one blessing$$$ another is often most unexpectedly given in its place.

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour$$$ whatever he does$$$ whoever he is.

I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise$$$ it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him.

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.

Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning$$$ we should never have found out that it has no meaning...

I live in my house as I live inside my skin: I know more beautiful$$$ more ample$$$ more sturdy and more picturesque skins: but it would seem to me unnatural to exchange them for mine.

Well$$$ I don't want to be king$$$ I want to be real.

Attention must be devoted principally to raising the workers to the level of revolutionaries; it is not our task to descend to the level of the 'working masses'.