Whateverfailures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies Ihave witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of actionwithout thought.

Sacrificers are not the ones to pity. The ones to pity are those they sacrifice.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Thisduality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature asreason versus passion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’mind and the ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of ourlives when our verbal-intellect sugges

The lion and the calf shall lie down together, but the calf won't get much sleep.

To be spiritual is not to reject reason but to go beyond it.

A quiettongue shows a wise head.

The tormentof human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that theself is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangled mind’ leaking away in lonely,wasteful self-conflict.

Loving without dreaming is like going to Venice without riding in a gondola

Necessity truns lion into fox.

An adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down,so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.