Quotes about Balance

All art involves conscious discipline. If one is going to paint, do sculpture, design a building or write a book, it will involve discipline in time and energy- or there would never be any production at all to be seen, felt or enjoyed by ourselves or others... the balance of the use of time is a constant individual problem for all of us: what to do, what to leave undone. One is always having to neglect one thing in order to give precedence to something else. The question is one of priorities.

If you have two loves of bread, sell one and buy a lily. The bread becomes a different thing when eaten at a table with the lily in the center.

Human beings were made to interact with growing things, not to be born, live, and die in the midst of concrete set in the middle of polluted air!

The essence of taste is suitability. Divest the word of its prim and priggish implications, and see how it expresses the mysterious demand of eye and mind for symmetry, harmony, and order.

If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.

Humans live on one-quarter of what they eat; on the other three-quarters lives their doctor.

When you're climbing the ladder, don't forget the rungs.

Equal Justice Under Law.

The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath.

Hew not too high lest the chips fall in thine eye.

I don't do alcohol anymore — I get the same effect just standing up fast.

God wisely designed the human body so that we can neither pat our own backs nor kick ourselves too easily.