I could do with a bit more excess. From now on I'm going to be immoderate--and volatile--I shall enjoy loud music and lurid poetry. I shall be rampant.

Leaders don't give excessive vocal orders. They humbly involve people and together cooperate with them to make a change happen.

Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself.

It's just as unpleasant to get more than you bargain for as to get less.

Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.

Too much work and too much energy kill a man just as effectively as too much assorted vice or too much drink.

The dinosaur's eloquent lesson is that if some bigness is good, an overabundance of bigness is not necessarily better.

The best of things, beyond their measure, cloy.

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.