Balance is a dynamic, never dull process. – Kristina Turner, The Self-Healing Cookbook, 2002, originally published 1987

Our moral theorists seem never content with the normal. Why must it always be a contest between fornication, obesity and laziness, and celibacy, fasting and hard labor? – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

Moderation is an ostentatious proof of our strength of character. – Francois de la Rochefoucauld

From a worldly point of view there is no mistake so great as that of being always right. – Samuel Butler, Note-Books, 1912