As his (C. S. Lewis's) good friend Owen Barfield once remarked, Lewis radiated a sense that the spiritual world is home, that we are always coming back to a place we have never yet reached.

What if my greatest disappointments, or the aching of this life, is the revealing of a greater thirst this world can't satisfy?

If necessity is the mother of invention, discontent is the father of progress.

There are some who complain most energetically and inconsolably of any, because they are, as they say, doing their duty. I also have in my mind that seemingly wealthy, but most terribly impoverished class of all, who have accumulated dross, but know not how to use it, or get rid of it, and thus have forged their own golden or silver fetters.

Hotels have lost a major revenue stream because nobody's using hotel phones to make calls. This is the kind of thing that is in the fine print in a hotel manual, but the average business traveler doesn't read.

Patients shouldn't freak out over it, ... but should be cognizant of it if they really want to minimize the amount of mercury the might potentially be getting.