Learn to obey before you command.

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.

The more I work with Nature and totemism, the more church is everywhere.

That each man is the sum of his choices is nothing less than the truth. And each, perhaps, is also something else.

Emotionally intelligent people have an ability to manage stress as it happens and remain calm through chaos.

No matter what you do, you're always hearing something.

Being thin created intense anxiety that I wouldn't be able to maintain that weight for life, and I couldn't.

Further, bearing up under our own burdens can help us develop a reservoir of empathy for the problems others face.

It's wonderful to work with someone with mentor status.

Who would complain if God allowed one hour of suffering in an entire lifetime of comfort? Why complain about a lifetime that includes suffering when that lifetime is a mere hour of eternity?

I'm very responsible. And with ability you have to have responsibility. I'm not perfect. But you have to make sure that your children will know that daddy makes mistakes.

I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and fries.