The superfluous, a very necessary thing.

I feel 80% of my life is completely normal.

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.

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

Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.

Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.

When you create circumstances together, when you try everything, then you can lose. But you need to show the importance.

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.

I still wanna rap better than everybody else, and I wanna say important things.

You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world’s problems at once but don’t ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own.

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

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

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.

Nature abhors annihilation.

I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.

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

The word ‚happy‘ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

It is normal to give away a little of one’s life in order not to lose it all.

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

Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.

The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.

The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.

Freedom is something that dies unless it’s used.

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.

After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.

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

The life which men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.

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

A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.

People have been fed this diet of pabulum, rights, and impulsive freedom. There’s just an absolute starvation for the other side of the story.

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

We cannot insist only on issues related to abortion, gay marriage and the use of contraceptive methods. The teaching of the church is clear, and I am a son of the church, but it is not necessary to talk about these issues all the time.

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

Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.

Politeness is, you know, is a wonderful thing. Manners are in fact, really important thing. But remember, Jesus didn’t have many manners as we now know.

What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.

I don’t think it’s possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor.

An overflow of good converts to bad.

Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.

Each doctor makes a much, much more important job than I do, but at the end, nobody talks about him. We all know about it, but we don’t really think about it.

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.

Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.

Control and surrender have to be kept in balance. That’s what surfers do – take control of the situation, then be carried, then take control. In the last few thousand years, we’ve become incredibly adept technically. We’ve treasured the controlling part of ourselves and neglected the surrendering part.

It’s an awful feeling to write something that you feel is really important… and to feel that you’re being published by people who really don’t get it and/or don’t really care.

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

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.

Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.

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.

You can’t have it all, all at once. Who – man or woman – has it all, all at once? Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all. But in different periods of time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

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

Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.

Not only do I think being nice and kind is easy but being kind, in my opinion, is important.

My family didn’t have a lot of money, so I worked my heart out to get my degrees. But the minute I graduated, suddenly everyone was asking me, ‚Well, when are you going to get married and start having kids?‘ And the truth is I had no idea how I would balance the expected role of wife and mother with a challenging career.

Motives reveal why we do what we do, which is actually more important to God than what we’re doing.

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

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

That is how you get to be a writer, incidentally: you feel somehow marginal, somehow slightly off-balance all the time.

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

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