Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.

Building a mission and building a business go hand in hand. The primary thing that excites me is the mission. But we have always had a healthy understanding that we need to do both.

Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

Facts, like people, want to be free – and when they’re free, liberty is usually around the corner.

He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.

The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.

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

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

This has been my life for many years; one role feeds the other.

The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

A career is wonderful, but you can’t curl up with it on a cold night.

There are always people always asking you for something. But I feel like I have a foundation. I have a supporting cast where it doesn’t bother me too much.

But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.

Strength and compassion are not mutually exclusive.

There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.

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?

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

I’ve accomplished enough with the music that I haven’t had to go out there and do other things to over-saturate.

Everything isn’t political.

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

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

I pledge allegiance to the Christian flag, and to the Savior, for whose Kingdom it stands, one Savior, crucified, risen, and coming again, with life and liberty for all who believe.

Freedom does not die from frontal attack. It dies because men in power no longer believe in a system based upon liberty.

A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.

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.

On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

We are a nation founded as a rebuke to tyranny. A nation of revolutionaries who refused sovereign reign from afar. Hear me – we’re a nation that says give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. A nation built on our differences, guided by the belief that we’re all created equal.

Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.

There is in me an anarchy and frightful disorder. Creating makes me die a thousand deaths, because it means making order, and my entire being rebels against order. But without it I would die, scattered to the winds.

There is no such thing as part freedom.

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.

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

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

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

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

Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.

Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is harmony in the house; when there is harmony in the house, there is order in the nation; when there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.

Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.

I think it does Discworld good if I don’t write about it all the time: sometimes you have to get it out of your system.

Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.

Sometimes, women in families put themselves last until it manifests itself in their own health.

Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature.

The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.

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.

To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.

‚Tis healthy to be sick sometimes.

Ridiculous yachts and private planes and big limousines won’t make people enjoy life more, and it sends out terrible messages to the people who work for them. It would be so much better if that money was spent in Africa – and it’s about getting a balance.

The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.

Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.

Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.

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

If you love something – and there are things that I love – you do want more and more and more of it, but that’s not the way to produce good work.

Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.