Michael Schumacher Quotes

Use, do not abuse... neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.

As disciplined as I am, I'm also a huge hedonist.

Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.

Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word 'satiety.'

I never forbid myself anything.

Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.

The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.

No one is free who does not lord over himself.

I don't want to be viewed as a womaniser or whatever. I don't like going crazy crazy, I like having fun but it's nice to wake up in your own bed, isn't it?

Freedom is good when the person can use it appropriately. Otherwise it is a disaster.

Nothing brings more pain than too much pleasure; nothing more bondage than too much liberty.

All of us should do what we want and have to do. We can only limit ourselves.

I don't deny myself anything - I do whatever I want in the moment - but I feel like moderation is the thing that can really sustain you for the rest of your life.

It's unrealistic not to be able to indulge.

The idea of self-government is foreign to Americans. ... Self-government is a form of self-control, self-limitation. It goes against our whole grain. We're supposed to go after what we want, not question whether we really need it.

The most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of your own nature and set it up as the thing you ought to follow at all costs.

You gotta take care of yourself; you can't do anything in excess.

The disciplined are free.

We benefit, intellectually and personally, from the interplay between different selves, from the balance between long-term contemplation and short-term impulse. We should be wary about tipping the scales too far. The community of selves shouldn't be a democracy, but it shouldn't be a dictatorship, either.

No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself.

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.

Fortunate indeed, is the man who takes exactly the right measure of himself, and holds a just balance between what he can acquire and what he can use.

I have to think of moderation, which is not a word that's in my vocabulary. But I try.

Many a man gets weary of clamping down on his rough impulses, which if given occasional release would encourage the living of life with salt in it, in place of dust.

A lot of foreign people say, when asking about eating habits, 'What is your guilty pleasure?' I have no guilt. Whatever I do, I enjoy and it's the point. I think if you start to feel guilty about it, that's a problem. So, no guilty pleasures. I have pleasure and no guilt at all.