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.

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

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.

In giving advice seek to help, not to please, your friend.

A child is a gift from God.

A house without security cannot be a home!

Let's not take Earth for granted, Let's Pay back.

Part of the art of survival as a coward is not letting things get to the point where that cowardice is exposed.

But if we play it safe, the problem is that we may be losing out, and I believe we are.

At a stage when young people want more than anything to be like everyone else, they find themselves the least alike. Everyone their age is growing and changing, but each at his or her own pace.

In the end what will happen will be what has happened whenever a civilization breaks up. The people who have brains and courage come through and the ones who haven't are winnowed out.

I learned from you that I do not crumble. I learned that strength is somthing you choose.

A thousand books on tennis won’t improve your serve, but a thousand serves will.

Good things come to those who initiate.