C. S. Lewis Quotes

You should always be well and bright, for so you do your best work; and you have so much beautiful work to do. The world needs it, and you must give it!

If thou wouldst help others, deal with them as though they were what they should be

We're passing on something of ourselves to others. I feel that's what makes our life full of meaning. It's hard to have meaning in a closet, encapsulated by nothing. I think you really have to expand yourself and your life and do what you can for other people.

There is nothing else to do in my life... I have no family, relationships - this is the only thing that I do.

If you love something, if you're passionate about it, that's where you're going to have the greatest impact on the people around you: by living in those passions and sharing that passion with other people and sharing your gifts and what God created you to be.

I like to say that I don't have the slightest doubt that Barack Obama read me in the early 80s. It's the kind of person he was!

Effective leaders don't gather things just for themselves; they do it in order to give to others.

Never pass up any opportunity to share your gifts with the world.

How can I fail when I have no purpose?

We are lost, lost,' said Gollum. 'No name, no business, no Precious, nothing. Only empty. Only hungry; yes, we are hungry. A few little fishes, nasty bony little fishes, for a poor creature, and they say death. So wise they are; so just, so very just

There is no one to talk to since Mahatma Gandhi died.

In giving you are throwing a bridge across the chasm of your solitude.

Loneliness and the feeling that you're no use to anyone - the worst kind of poverty.

The poorest man in the world is a man without a dream.

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

Six is the hardest number for me to experience, the smallest. It's the absence of something - it's cold, dark, almost like a black hole. If someone tells me they are depressed, I might imagine myself in the hole of a six to help me empathise.

You write a story about loneliness, and you grab them all because everybody's an expert on that one.

I sat there with everything - and I had nothing.

To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn't know where he is going.

Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it.

Although it sounds cliche, the main thing I want to do is touch people with what I do. I want everything I do to be meaningful, and I want it to be about more than just myself, or the money.

What's important to me is to share, and being inspired, and inspiring.

If it awakens in us as a whole how important that is - the theme of how conquest and ambition are meaningless without contribution - I think then as a society we're in better shape. I hope people are inspired to be the best.

Every 'Oprah Winfrey Show' has about it the aura of Oprah's own life, just as the rituals and sacraments of a religion are suffused with the life of the religion's founder. Above the testimony of Oprah's guests hovers what viewers know about Oprah's experience.