What is the essence of America? Finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom 'to' and freedom 'from.'
Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.
Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain some level of comfort.
I look forward to these confrontations with the press to kind of balance up the nice and pleasant things that come to me as president.
A university anywhere can aim no higher than to be as British as possible for the sake of the undergraduates, as German as possible for the sake of the public at large-and as confused as possible for the preservation of the whole uneasy balance.
There are men who can write poetry, and there are men who can read balance sheets. The men who can read balance sheets cannot write.
The qualities of an exceptional cook are akin to those of a successful tightrope walker: an abiding passion for the task, courage to go out on a limb and an impeccable sense of balance.
An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards.
The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.
When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.
People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.
In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.
What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue.
The word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
I always try to balance the light with the heavy - a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes.