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.

In Hawaii we have something called Ho'oponopono where people come together to resolve crises and restore peace and balance.

On balance my life has been a constant stream of blessings rather than disappointments and failures and tragedies. I wish I had been re-elected. I think I could have kept our country at peace. I think I could have consolidated what we achieved at Camp David with a treaty between Israel and the Palestinians.

Balance peace and joy are the fruit of a successful life. It starts with recognizing your talents and finding ways to serve others by using them.

And we ask the American people to play an important part of our layered defense. We ask for cooperation patience and a commitment to vigilance in the face of a determined enemy.

The number of stressors has multiplied exponentially: traffic money success work/life balance the economy the environment parenting family conflict relationships disease. As the nature of human life has become far more complicated our ancient stress response hasn't been able to keep up.

The man who has sufficient power over himself to wait until his nature has recovered its even balance is the truly wise man but such beings are seldom met with.

Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols which observe him with familiar glances.

I think what I'm going to do is get more balance in my life to still be able to go out and play the hard rock 'n' roll and do what I like to do in music.

A lot of music is mathematics. It's balance.

I'm quite private. And I never wanted to be the biggest star in the world really. So in that sense I've got a good balance of doing great shows of making an appearance every now and then and writing music and I don't really have to do much else.

The trick of making movies in this culture is how to not give up everything that makes them worthwhile in order to get them made - and that's a tricky balance.

There's always an imbalance with actors and actresses in the industry. And I think because there are just fewer movies overall being made it's that trickle down effect.

I definitely have found a balance. I've had so many offers in the past to do different movies or different things and I always choose tournaments over it.

Right now my job is that I'm like an ambulance chaser. I've got to look for movies with white guys falling out of them.

When I left 20th Century-Fox to freelance my agent believed that getting big money was the way to establish real importance in our industry.

Those carrying a credit card balance should scale back to making the minimum payment each month so they have more money to put into savings.

Ridiculous yachts and private planes and big limousines won't make people enjoy life more and it sends out terrible messages to the people who work for them. It would be so much better if that money was spent in Africa - and it's about getting a balance.

But all the money in the world cannot make you happy either so there has to be a balance.

If you are worried about job security and do not have an adequate emergency fund (ideally eight months' worth of living expenses stashed away in a federally insured bank or credit union) you need to focus more on saving money than paying down the balance on your credit cards.

Many good qualities are not sufficient to balance a single want - the want of money.

When I'm in the gym I'm in the gym and that is my focus. But when I'm not in the gym I'm enjoying being a mom and taking care of those responsibilities .. They really do provide me with the balance that I need to be a more complete athlete.

When I was a new mom I used to think that life was going to be balanced and I strived for that. But life is crazy!

Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love.