Quotes About Balance

Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity. I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumbnail.

When I was very young, I was disgracefully intolerant but when I passed the thirty mark I prided myself on having learned the beautiful lesson that all things were good, and equally good. That, however, was really laziness. Now, thank goodness, I've sorted out what matters and what doesn't. And I'm beginning to be intolerant again.

When you reach your sixties, you have to decide whether you're going to be a sot or an ascetic. In other words if you want to go on working after you're sixty, some degree of asceticism is inevitable.

Middle age is when you have a choice of two temptations and choose the one that will get you home earlier.

Do not think of all your anxieties, you will only make yourself ill.

Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They are more afraid of life than death.

All philosophy in two words, - sustain and abstain.

The materials of city planning are sky, space, trees, steel and cement in that order and in that hierarchy.

Architecture is inhabited sculpture.

No house should ever be on a hill, or on anything. It should be of the hill. Hill and house should live together, each the happier for the other.

Architecture is frozen music.

The best of a bad bargain.

Beauty - the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole.

The bee that hath honey in her mouth hath a sting in her tail.

A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.

Combine common sense and the Golden Rule, and you will have very little bad luck.

Reading after a certain (time) diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

A successful book cannot afford to be more than ten percent new.

Over-excitement and boredom are states of mind which I equally shun.

Man doth not live by bread only.

Better is half a loaf than no bread.

I won't quarrel with my bread and butter.

Expenditure rises to meet income.

A businessman is a hybrid of a dancer and a calculator.