The superfluous, a very necessary thing.

The writing is important, but the way you say the line and the pause you give it, the facial expression – all of that is very important.

I have this feeling that the world is not in balance. And people are afraid, but we’re also starting to be really brave.

Just as discipline and freedom are opposing forces that must be balanced, leadership requires finding the equilibrium in the dichotomy of many seemingly contradictory qualities between one extreme and another.

There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; its what we do with them that’s important.

Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.

Step with care and great tact, and remember that Life’s a Great Balancing Act.

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

I have always reckoned the dignity of the republic of first importance and preferable to life.

Education is the cheap defense of nations.

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.

The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don’t set out to say anything very important.

If literature isn’t everything, it’s not worth a single hour of someone’s trouble.

All you have in business is your reputation – so it’s very important that you keep your word.

Become slower in your journey through life. Practice yoga and meditation if you suffer from ‚hurry sickness.‘ Become more introspective by visiting quiet places such as churches, museums, mountains and lakes. Give yourself permission to read at least one novel a month for pleasure.

The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.

How could you have a soccer team if all were goalkeepers? How would it be an orchestra if all were French horns?

Life is grim, and we don’t have to be grim all the time.

I feel like the thing we can do is celebrate people doing great work and create more cultural momentum and awareness that this is an important thing in the world. So when the next economic crisis hits and people are talking about where to cut from the budget, science isn’t the thing.

The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.

Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.

Lyrics are so important, but they’re really underrated.

There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation.

I live in Puerto Rico, my family lives in Puerto Rico, my friends. What happens in Puerto Rico matters to me.

It’s pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.

Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.

I was lucky to be involved and get to contribute to something that was important, which is empowering people with software.

My model for business is The Beatles: They were four guys that kept each others‘ negative tendencies in check; they balanced each other. And the total was greater than the sum of the parts.

Anyone can be a moral individual, concerned with human rights and problems; but only a college professor, a trained expert, can solve technical problems by ‚sophisticated‘ methods. Ergo, it is only problems of the latter sort that are important or real.

An overflow of good converts to bad.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

You can’t take care of charity unless you take care of yourself first.

Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.

Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?

Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They’re both important and schools are forgetting one of them.

Winning is the most important. Everything is consequence of that.

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d rather not.

It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper place, than to expand both indiscriminately.

To be frank, it sometimes seems that the American idea of freedom has more to do with my freedom to do what I want than your freedom to do what you want. I think that, in Europe, we’re probably better at understanding how to balance those competing claims, though not a lot.

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

You can’t have it all all at once. Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all, but in given periods in time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain.

Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions.

With all the… success that I’ve been lucky enough to get? That doesn’t happen unless the home life is solid.

If you think dealing with issues like worthiness and authenticity and vulnerability are not worthwhile because there are more pressing issues, like the bottom line or attendance or standardized test scores, you are sadly, sadly mistaken. It underpins everything.

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

Strength and compassion are not mutually exclusive.

I think the family movie is very important to everybody right now.

Use, do not abuse… neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.

Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.

I think I don’t take myself too seriously. You know as far as, it’s a fun life. I take my music serious, but I like to have fun.

While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize that we cannot maintain our principles unless we survive.

Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.

I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one. And I’m still fanatical, but now I’m a little less fanatical.

While some doubted that connecting the world was actually important, we were building. While others doubted that this would be sustainable, you were forming lasting connections. We just cared more about connecting the world than anyone else. And we still do today.

My kids are normal. If they could eat burgers and fries and ice cream every day, they would. And so would I. But that doesn’t sustain us.

He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.

A properly balanced story provides an equal representation of the negative and positive attributes of, I could say the world, but it’s actually a being. ‚Harry Potter“s a good example. So Harry’s the hero, right. But he’s tainted with evil. There’s a dark and a light in every bit of that narrative. It’s well balanced.