The wise are balanced, and the foolish are extreme.

It is foolish in the extreme not only to resort to force before necessity compels, but especially to madly create the conditions that will…

— Benjamin Tucker

“Extreme intelligence is accused of being as foolish as extreme lack of it; only moderation is good. The majority have laid this down and…

— Blaise Pascal

I think Shambhala can be a very strong force as a social example of how you can try to live a life balanced in…

— Sakyong Mipham

...in song the words tend to lose their significance, do often lose it, while at the other extreme, in current prose it is the…

— Paul Valery

Like, if you look at Heidi Montag, who got 10 surgeries she didn't need, I think that's unfortunate. I've always been voluptuous with a…

— Holly Madison

Youth is seen as everything. You don't know anything when you're young. It's great being older, just having a more balanced perspective. I wake…

— Val Kilmer

The most significant halachic authority of the last 100 years, whose positions helped fashion a balanced and moderate Judaism.

— Ovadia Yosef

All fits of pleasure are balanced by an equal degree of pain or languor; it is like spending this year part of the next…

— Jonathan Swift

Defense spending as a share of the economy dropped significantly during the early 1990s, and that was one of the things, along with other…

— Peter Orszag

While opponents label (Howard) Dean a throwback liberal, The New York Times recently noted that as governor, Dean cut income taxes, reformed welfare and…

— Jon Stewart

The cultural integration of psychedelics won't happen overnight, and the question of young people is perhaps the most difficult involved. The first step is…

— Rick Doblin

I want my whole life to be a great work of art, not just my art. And that means paying attention to my entire…

— Jewel

But change must always be balanced with some degree of consistency.

— Ron D. Burton

If our homes should provide anything, they should provide a sense of who we are and how we got here, a sense of connection…

— Terence Conran

There were moments, of course. Those small spaces in time, too soon gone, when everything seems to stand still, and existence is balanced on…

— Diana Gabaldon