It must be a balance in everything we do, not too much of everything, keep it simple, not complicated.
The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection.
The human mind, if it is to keep its sanity, must maintain the nicest balance between unity and plurality.
That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world, both blessed and cursed with instant communication? We should not fight fire with fire, threats with threats.
I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you the strength to do the right thing and behave the right way and overcome the mind.
It sounds extraordinary but it's a fact that balance sheets can make fascinating reading.
There's always more demands than there's time to meet them, so it's constantly a matter of trying to balance them.
This hiatus coming up I'm looking at a comedy because I need the balance.
The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals; but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else.
Short-story writing requires an exquisite sense of balance. Novelists, frankly, can get away with more. A novel can have a dull spot or two, because the reader has made a different commitment.