"By moderation one can be generous...." - Quote by Lao Tzu

“The sage regards things as difficult, and thereby avoids difficulty.”

“Use the Light that dwells within you to regain your natural clarity of sight.”

“In caring for others and serving heaven,There is nothing like using restraint.”

“Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same.”

“I never smoke to excess - that is, I smoke in moderation, only one cigar at a time.”

“I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizens Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner but the white moderate who is more devoted to order than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice.”

“Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man.”

“He who lights his [candle] at mine receives light without darkening me.”

“And you can always, always, give kindness”