balance Quotes

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.

Medicine is the restoration of discordant elements; sickness is the discord of the elements infused into the living body.

Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even the beautiful.

I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?

I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.

To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.

The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.

If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers!

Depending upon my activities, I sleep between five and ten hours every night. I sleep in an extra-wide single bed, and I use only one heavy down comforter over me, summer or winter. I have never been able to wear pajamas or creepy nightgowns; they disturb my sleep.

Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.