All extremes are error. The reverse of error is not truth but error still. Truth lies between these extremes.

                             —Richard Cecil

Few people do business well who do nothing else.

                     —Lord Chesterfield

You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.

                         —James Thurber

Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath. Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important. Just lie down.

                      —Natalie Goldberg

A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.

             —William Arthur Ward

I make the most of all that comes, / And the least of all that goes.

                           —Sara Teasdale

The really idle man get nowhere. The perpetually busy man does not get much farther.

                 —Sir Heneage Ogilvie

Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.

                           —Denis Waitley

Without a sense of proportion there can be neither good taste nor genuine intelligence, nor perhaps moral integrity.

                                 —Eric Hoffer

The world acquires value only through its extremes and endures only through moderation; extremists make the world great, the moderates give it stability.

                                —Paul Valery

We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory.

                          —Bern Williams

So few the grains of happiness measured against all the dark and still the scales balance.

                         —Jane Hirshfield