Quotes about Balance

A republic - if you can keep it - is about limitation, and for good reason, because we are mortal and our actions are imperfect.

At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials.

We have always needed old people to keep things from going too fast and young people to keep them from going too slow. Youth has fire and age has light and we need both.

It is a reading age, a preaching age, a working age, but it is not a praying age.

Man cannot live by bread alone he must have peanut butter.

It is better to err by excess of mercy than by excess of severity... Wilt thou become a Saint? Be severe to thyself but kind to others.

Be at peace with yourself first and then you will be able to bring peace to others.

Do not allow your anger to control your reason, but rather your reason to control your anger.

O]ne can become whole only by the responsible acceptance of one's partiality.

There appears to be a law that when creatures have reached the level of consciousness, as men have, they must become conscious of the creation; they must learn how they fit into it and what its needs are and what it requires of them, or else pay a terrible penalty: the spirit of the creation will go out of them, and they will become destructive; the very earth will depart from them and go where they cannot follow.

No relationship can continue very long at its highest emotional pitch. But fidelity prepares us for the return of these moments

I knew a man who, in the age of chain-saws, went right on cutting his wood with a handsaw and an axe. He was a healthier and a saner man than I am. I shall let his memory trouble my thoughts.