He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses though he be not drunk.

Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.

I have a slight bit of OCD, I think. I’m not walking around flipping light switches. But when I say I’m going to do something, I have to do it.

If you are a parent, you have probably already realized that your children are always watching what you do. And just as children watch their parents and emulate their behavior, so do employees who are watching their bosses.

Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.

If you like it you should enjoy it! Moderation in everything. If there’s things you really love, you should enjoy. You get one life, so you should enjoy it.

I do a little thing about the way people shake the sweetener packet. You know, like they’re all excited. I want to get all the granules down to one end. I love all these rituals.

I’m just going to say it: I’m pro-guilt. Guilt is good. Guilt helps us stay on track because it’s about our behavior. It occurs when we compare something we’ve done – or failed to do – with our personal values.

Don’t be getting sloppy drunk and telling them dirty jokes.

Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.

I don’t drink water, haven’t drank water in 40 years.

Life is about conduct and how we conduct ourselves. But two wrongs never make a right.

I don’t do any vulgar movements.

Silence speaks so much louder than screaming tantrums. Never give anyone an excuse to say that you’re crazy.

The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.

We never repent of having eaten too little.

I like to talk about my obsession with french fries because I don’t want people to think that ‚Let’s Move‘ is about complete, utter deprivation. It’s about moderation and real-life changes and ideas that really work for families.

What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What’s the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?

A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.

Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

I deeply regret any harm, or any perceived harm, that I may have done to anyone by any behaviour of mine.

My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication – it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness – it is all that I have – and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well.

I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk.

Please think of me like an endangered species and just observe me quietly from far away. If you try to talk to me or touch me casually, I may get intimidated and bite you. So please be careful.

Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.

To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.

Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.

I never smoke to excess – that is, I smoke in moderation, only one cigar at a time.

Do not laugh much or often or unrestrainedly.

With every word we utter, with every action we take, we know our kids are watching us. We as parents are their most important role models.

Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.

It is possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard.

The heart is great which shows moderation in the midst of prosperity.

My concern today is not with the length of a person’s hair but with his conduct.

When the dog looks at you, the dog is not thinking what kind of a person you are. The dog is not judging you.

People who eat with their mouth open should be punched in the face.

Where the mind goes, the man follows.

The savage in man is never quite eradicated.

Fame is like caviar, you know – it’s good to have caviar but not when you have it at every meal.

We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Some animals are cunning and evil-disposed, as the fox; others, as the dog, are fierce, friendly, and fawning. Some are gentle and easily tamed, as the elephant; some are susceptible of shame, and watchful, as the goose. Some are jealous and fond of ornament, as the peacock.

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.

The more people rationalize cheating, the more it becomes a culture of dishonesty. And that can become a vicious, downward cycle. Because suddenly, if everyone else is cheating, you feel a need to cheat, too.

It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess.

Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous.

No sane man will dance.

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.

You know, I live a monastic lifestyle. No, I do. I do live in extremes, basically. I go back and forth. Once every six months, I’ll have a day where I eat more chocolate than has ever been consumed by a human being.

A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

There are some people, you know, they think the way to be a big man is to shout and stomp and raise hell-and then nothing ever really happens. I’m not like that I never shoot blanks.

Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.

Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.

Humanity I love you because when you’re hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.

I didn’t do anything at the Queen, whom I admire.

In 1969, I gave up women and alcohol – it was the worst 20 minutes of my life.

Ritual is another word for fear, manifested in a different way.