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.

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

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.

It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.

I think sometimes the best training is to rest.

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

Everything isn’t political.

As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain from smoking when awake.

I guess you could say I devoted myself so strongly to my music that for awhile I forgot about my family. But I only get one set of parents, and I think I forgot about that for a little while.

The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.

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.

‚Tis healthy to be sick sometimes.

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

Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.

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.

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

Brad and I have never wanted our kids to be actors, but we also want them to be around film and be a part of Mommy and Daddy’s life and for it not to be kept from them, either. We just want them to have a good, healthy relationship with it.

Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.

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

Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

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

What I tell my kids is, ‚I’m preparing you for college and for life. So, having independence, knowing how to set your own boundaries, figuring out how to make that balance. We still have screen-time rules.‘

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.

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

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.

I always believe that there should come a time when your energy, speed, stamina should combine well with your brains.

Hobbies are apt to run away with us, you know; it doesn’t do to be run away with. We must keep the reins.

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.

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

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

The world has crafted a beautiful balance of collective action – common but differentiated responsibility and respective capabilities.

Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.

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

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

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.

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.

Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one.

When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn’t a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

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

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?

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.

I feel that sin and evil are the negative part of you, and I think it’s like a battery: you’ve got to have the negative and the positive in order to be a complete person.

When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.

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

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

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

Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants.

I want to make something that is breathtaking. Of course, you can’t make something that is always breathtaking, or you would never be able to breathe. You would collapse.

My weak spot is laziness. Oh, I have a lot of weak spots: cookies, croissants.

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man’s life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.

I, personally, think there is a really danger of taking food too seriously. Food should be part of the bigger picture.

The more a person seeks security, the more that person gives up control over their life.

To do a great right do a little wrong.

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

Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.

Young love is wild and outrageous, laughing at moderation and blinding us to common sense.

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.