Nothing in excess.

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.

I never trust frank and simple people whose stories hold together.

Love has value even though we can’t measure it. Silence has meaning even though we can’t understand it.

Our generation has an incredible amount of realism, yet at the same time it loves to complain and not really change. Because, if it does change, then it won't have anything to complain about.

Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship

Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was.

You bring to a painting your own experience.

[W]e all lie down in our bed of earth as sure to wake as ever we can be to shut our eyes.

Everyone's always telling you to be humble. When was the last time someone told you to be great?

Conscious people always have a choice of whether to try to modify the actions of people around them or to change their response to the incoming stimuli.

I just want to continue the success and be an athlete that is shown in a good light in New York City.