Quotes About Moderation

My basic food mantra is small portions, no water during the meal and the capacity to say no to an extra helping if it's not required.

Half a bottle of Black Label and some good food at night are my only requirements.

Growth by accumulation only is sickness.

Because I have moderated two general election debates - in 2004 and 2008 - I know better than to carp from the sidelines. I am confident in my accomplishment of having had Queen Latifah portray me on 'Saturday Night Live' both years.

By nature, I am someone who hews to the middle. I need to hear all sides of a story. Unless I am engaged in a tough round of dominoes or Scrabble, I think of myself as unreasonably reasonable.

I know there are some good sides of social media but I am scared of getting addicted to the mobile screen.

It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess.

Creating an overall healthy lifestyle for yourself doesn't require a radical diet or significant life change. In fact, it can be attained through common sense decisions about the way we eat, move, and live.

Now we are in a situation in which for a significant part of the industrial world too much could become a danger, especially too much of the things which are really not good for us in such large quantities.

If you ask me to get a six-pack in the interim between signing a film, I will not do it. I enjoy food and will be happy to feed myself a pizza or two and gorge on cakes. But, I have good control over my body.

There's a very simple rule to follow - never eat so much that you can't do 20 push-ups.

I continue to be drawn to clarity and simplicity. 'Less is more' remains my mantra.

I like comfort and I like simplicity.

Every virtue that reaches the exaggeration, is becoming a defect

and there are more things in this world than just your qi and ego. Lao-tzu understood this when he claimed that his three treasures were frugality, compassion, and humility. Avoid fanaticism by following Lao-tzu's example.

I like to hold something back. Once information is out, it can't be recalled so it's better to exercise caution before you flap your mouth.

If rewards are immoderate, there will be expenditure that does not result in gratitude; if punishments are immoderate, there will be slaughter that does not result in awe.

Overindulgence in anything eventually enslaves.

But also, as with Baldwin, that passion seemed to transmute itself too readily into stately language, into an inexhaustible self-perpetuating oratory. The moral imperatives—love, moderation—offered to palliate intolerable historical or metaphysical dilemmas were too general, too abstract, too rhetorical.

There's lots of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven't the time to enjoy it.

There's a lot of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven't the time to enjoy it.

John Calvin wrote, "The evil in our desire typically does not lie in what we want, but in that we want it too much.

We need to be able to get wired up without overheating, and disconnect without going cold.

The key to a successful life is balance. Take care of your physical, emotional, and spiritual health.