What matter is not to add years to your life but to add life to your years.

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

Sometimes the man of action is the fellow who has just got both his feat in hot water.

Compromise,n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

I know you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure yourealize that what you heard isn't what I meant.

Neversay more than is necessary.

Silenceis as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of greatsculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

The more you seat in peace, the less you bleed in war

Nevercut what you can untie.

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

Power, however it has evolved, whatever its origins, willnot be given up without a struggle.

A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion.