If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap, whence every one must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.

A half truth is the worst of all lies,because it can be defended in partiality.

In the ideal State laws are few and simple, because they have been derived from certainties. In the corrupt State laws are many and confused, because they have been derived from uncertainties.

He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.

Laws are like spider's webs: If some poor weak creature comes up against them, it is caught; but a big one can break through and get away.

Seek to learn constantly while you live; do not wait in the faith that old age by itself will bring wisdom.

Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.

We can have justice whenever those who have not been injured by injustice are as outraged by it as those who have been.

Often the wicked prosper, while the righteous starve; yet I would never exchange my state for theirs, my virtue for their gold. For mine endures, while riches change their owner every day.

The ideal state is that in which an injury done to the least of its citizens is an injury done to all.

In all things that you do, consider the end.

If I didn't have Lincoln's butt to stare at the whole time, motivation would be a lot harder to come by.

What is important is to keep learning to enjoy challenge and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers.

I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity.

I have no regrets. I have not one single regret. I was born with a wonderful DNA where I felt that my life was not a race against someone else or another artist. It was probably internal.

My best stories come out of nowhere, with no concern for form at all.

I love everything John Carpenters ever done.

You are going in one second the length of a football field. That means your brain is receiving information from your body what your car is doing physically, bumping, balance, performance.

It is better to trust and sometimes be disappointed than to be forever mistrusting and be right occasionally.

GOP represents people, but Dems communicate better.

When I was little, I think that I wanted Superman to be my boyfriend.