“Booze, pot, too much sex, failure in one's private life, too much attrition, too much recognition, too little recognition. Nearly everything in the scheme of things works to dull a first-rate talent. But the worst probably is cowardice.”

“We demand too much of life, too little of ourselves.”

“Better too much spade work than too little! This work saves blood.”

“There are only two things wrong with money: too much or too little.”

“In this line of work, too much paranoia can be worse than too little.”

“Happiness is a mysterious thing, to be found somewhere between too little and too much.”

“Selfishness comes from too little self-love, not too much, as we compensate for our lack. There’s no such thing as caring for the self too much, just as there’s no such thing as too much genuine affection for others. Our world suffers from too little self-love and too much judgment, insecurity, fear, and mistrust. If we all cared about ourselves more, most of these ills would disappear.”

“The more we work the more we need to pray. In this day of activity there is great danger, not of doing too much, but of praying too little for so much work.”

“If something takes too long, something happens to you. You become all and only the thing you want and nothing else, for you have paid too much for it, too much in wanting and too much in waiting and too much in getting.”

“You don’t have much time. If you think too long or too much, sometimes that is wrong. If you have one idea and know it from the first minute, do it. Shoot. I had so little space in the box. Think too much, the defender comes to block you.”