That city in which those who are not wronged, no less than those who are wronged, exert themselves to punish the wrongdoers.

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.

Isn't that what I always think when I get The Poor Motherless Girl Look? Like I've been shoved out of the airplane without a parachute because mothers are the parachutes.

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.

I started doing regional theater. My first job was "The Importance of Being Earnest" at Dallas Theater Center.

I love trade. I'm a free trader, 100 percent. But we [the USA] need smart people making the deals, and we don't have smart people making the deals.

life is a succession of readjustments.

There is no handbook about how a career is going to go.

It feels amazing to work with writers that write really well.

Do what you really want to do. That's why God put you on this earth.

When you get hard work you get success, and we put a lot of years into it.

Industry, commerce and security are the surest roads to the happiness and prosperity of people.