You can outdistance that which is running after you, but not what is running insideyou.

Sometimeswe have the dream but we are not ourselves ready for the dream. We have togrow to meet it.

Commonsense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

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

Sciencecannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame thedebates about those conflicts.

When the eyes says one thing, and the tounge another, a practised man relise on the language of first.

Speech is of time; silence is of eternity.

Lookingfor fish? Don't climb a tree.

Truth is strengthened by observation and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainity.

When youcannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action youshould take choose the bolder.

The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

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