Poets tell many lies.

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.

Embrace the beauty of existence.

Reason and Faith are not antithetical, but rather synergistic".

There are two modes of establishing our reputation; to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues.

I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!

The deficit is the symptom, but spending is the disease.

Any book is a self-help guide if you can take something from it.

Having my poems set to music by Eric Moe has completely knocked my socks off.

The worst thing that ever happened to America was the 19th Amendment.

It's really such a personal journey, making a record, but even more so writing the songs.

for some reason Gale and Peeta do not coexist well in my thoughts.