Quotes About Balance

Our future is a race between the growing power of our technology and the wisdom with which we use it. Let's make sure that wisdom wins.

Duke est desipere in loco [it is pleasant to act foolishly from time to time—a line from Horace].

Life isn't a support system for art. It's the other way around.

It starts with this: put your desk in the corner, and every time you sit down there to write, remind yourself why it isn't in the middle of the room. Life isn't a support system for art. It's the other way around.

I felt lonely and content at the same time. I believe that is a rare kind of happiness.

You can't be careful on a skateboard.

All things serve the beam

Do the day and let the day do you.

WHEN THE POWER OF LOVE IS STRONGER THAN THE LOVE OF POWER, THE WORLD WILL KNOW PEACE—JIMI HENDRIX.

All I can say in my own defense is quot libros, quam breve tempus—so many books, so little time (and yes, I have the tee-shirt).

Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master.

Ka is a friend to evil as well as good. It embraces both.

If you don't control your temper, your temper will control you.

The wonder is that so many OCDs manage to live productive lives, just the same. They work, they eat (often not enough or too much, it's true), they go to the movies, they make love to their girlfriends and boyfriends, their wives and husbands... and all the time those birds are there, clinging to them and pecking away little bits of flesh.

You still owe a debt. Pay it.

The world has a way of keeping things in balance.

Nothing in nature is that even; man is the inventor of straight edges.

If stone-sober people can fuck like they're out of their minds -- can actually be out of their minds while caught in that throe -- why shouldn't writers be able to go bonkers and still stay sane?

In the end, all things, even the Beams, serve the Dark Tower. Did you think you would be any different?

There's no room for anything but joy and fear, and joy ruled the house. Fear lived in the shack out back!

Every marriage has two hearts, one light and one dark

I think there's always a reason for love, but sometimes hate just is. A kind of free-floating evil.

A successful marriage was a balancing act-that was a thing everyone knew. A successful marriage was also dependent on a high tolerance for irritation.

even the most well-adjusted person is holding on to his or her sanity by a greased rope.