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

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.

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.

I pursued education not instead of being a good mother, but because being a good mother required that I build a better life for my family.

All mothers are mothers of great people, and it is not their fault that life later disappoints them.

The idea of social justice is that the state should treat different people unequally in order to make them equal.

I am the blood of the dragon. Do not presume to teach me lessons.

I committed the first crime by creating men as mortals. After that, what more could you do, you the murderers? Come on; they already had death in them: at most you simply hastened things a little.

I've worked with Frank [Darabont] on two collaborations, The Majestic with Jim Carrey and Stephen King's The Mist.

I am working hard to provide solutions to meet a most pressing goal: preserving our way of life for our kids and grandkids.

I always say, "If you see something is wrong in your neighborhood, go ahead and change it. Don't wait for somebody else to do it." This is pretty much what I do.

sometimes in comedy you can make the audience feel poignancy stronger than you can with tears or anguish.

I originally wanted to be F. Scott Fitzgerald, but failed.