This dualityhas been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versuspassion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’ mind andthe ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of our lives when ourverbal-intellect sugges

Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

There is all the difference in the world between having something to say and havingto say something.

Wisdom requires that we pour a little oil of delicate courtesy on the wheels of friendship.

Change meansmovement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily basedon mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

Too little liberty brings stagnation, too much brings chaos.

Don'tstand by the water and long for fish; go home and weave a net.

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.

No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independet.

If we shake hands with icy fingures, it is because we have burnt them so horribly before.

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.