It isn't important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it

Failingto plan is planning to fail.

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.

Don'tconsider your reputation and you may do anything you like.

If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too.

Humoris the affectionate communication of insight.

Everyoneis wise until he speaks.

Every advantage has its tax

Soremarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises those that court himand admires whoever will not bend before him.

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