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) Category: Moderation
He who makes a paradise of his bread makes a hell of his hunger. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin Category: Moderation
Spontaneity is good. Routine is good. Conflicting goodness? No. Balance is life. – Terri Guillemets Category: Moderation
All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much. – George Harrison Category: Moderation
Travel in all the four quarters of the earth, yet you will find nothing anywhere. Whatever there is, is only here. – Ramakrishna Category: Travel
I believe in imagination. I did Kramer vs. Kramer before I had children. But the mother I would be was already inside me. – Meryl Streep Category: Imagination
America thinks of itself as a meritocracy, so people have more respect for success and more contempt for failure. – Toby Young Category: Failure
