If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can’t see from the center.

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

The assumption is that your personal life has to be a mess to create, but how much chaos can you allow in before it takes over?

Do not laugh much or often or unrestrainedly.

As soon as I go out into the world, I belong, in a way, to everyone else. It’s legal to follow me. It’s legal to stalk me at the beach. And I can’t call the police or ask them to leave.

There is moderation even in excess.

I think the running game is very important to every offense. Being balanced is extremely important. There’s times where you have to throw the ball. You could be down late in the game, you need to come back; you have to be able to pass it when they know you’re passing it.

We never repent of having eaten too little.

He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.

If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?

An index is a great leveller.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

I know that one of the great arts that the writer develops is the art of saying, ‚No. No, I’m finished. Bye.‘ And leaving it alone. I will not write it into the ground. I will not write the life out of it. I won’t do that.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.

Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.

He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.

I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.

It’s not called quitting if you quit while you ahead. It’s about being aware and being strategic enough to know that you got to get out the pool at some point. You got to put your clothes back on and dry off.

As a writer, as a creator, I’m giving you my experiences. But just take what I give you. You ain’t got to pry beyond that.

Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.

Every once in a while I get the highly inappropriate proposal which is like, ‚Wow, Really! You don’t even know me and I don’t know you at all, and you want that to happen? Tonight? Ok, I get off work at 7.30.‘

Whatever possession we gain by our sword cannot be sure or lasting, but the love gained by kindness and moderation is certain and durable.

You cannot mix sports with politics.

A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.

If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Beware the hobby that eats.

Don’t get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects.

The pleasure of work is open to anyone who can develop some specialised skill, provided that he can get satisfaction from the exercise of his skill without demanding universal applause.

Of my mental cycles, I devote maybe ten percent to business thinking. Business isn’t that complicated. I wouldn’t want to put it on my business card.

To be safe at the expense of the liberty of other people is a difficult equation.

I don’t ever make moves under pressure.

Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.

Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Guarding your heart and protecting your dignity are a little bit more important than clarifying the emotions of someone who’s only texting you back three words. I’ve learned that from trying to figure out people who don’t deserve to be figured out.

Engage your brain before you engage your weapon.

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity… The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

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

I think everyone should approach relationships from the perspective of playing it straight and giving someone the benefit of the doubt. Until he establishes that this is a game. And if it’s a game, you need to win. The best thing to do is just walk away from the table.

Health consists with temperance alone.

Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same.

Want balance in your life? Then sure, get your own act together, but don’t forget four powerful disciplines of execution in your team and organization.

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.

Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

We do not know what love is. We know the symptoms of it, the pleasure, the pain, the fear, the anxiety and so on. We try to solve the symptoms, which becomes a wandering in darkness. We spend our days and nights in this, and it is soon over in death.

Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body.

I’m gradually beginning to feel that we Chinese need to be controlled. If we’re not being controlled, we’ll just do what we want.

No, I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing.

He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.

To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

The moment someone asks you to do something you don’t have the time or inclination to do is fraught with vulnerability.

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.

Never, and I mean never, allow anyone else’s ideas of who you can or can’t become sully your dream or pollute your imagination. This is your territory, and a ‚Keep Out‘ sign is a great thing to erect at all entrances to your imagination.

There are no pleasures in a fight but some of my fights have been a pleasure to win.

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

Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may be, we cannot count upon the moderation, or hope to extinguish the ambition of others.