It may make your blood boil and your mind may not be changed, but the practice of listening to opposing views is essential for effective citizenship¹. It is essential for our democracy.

Barack Obama (1961 - ), University of Michigan Commencement, 2010

The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.

Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC)

We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium² in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.

Francis J. Braceland, O Magazine, April 2003

What I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse (1869 - 1954), O Magazine, April 2003

So divinely is the world organized that every one of us, in our place and time, is in balance with everything else.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)

Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.

Jose Ortega y Gasset (1883 - 1955)

I've learned that you can't have everything and do everything at the same time.

Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, April 2003