count no man happy until he be dead.

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.

Well, in this world of basic stereotyping, give a guy a big nose and some weird hair and he is capable of anything.

How lucky I am to lose sleep over such a work of art.

black identities are diverse and complex…

Be as light as a feather and when they reach for you — you will blow right by their grip

Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.

The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move them.

The best advise is to take it all as if it had been your intention.

Economics, we learn in the history of thought, only became a science by escaping from the casuistry and moralizing of medieval thought.

Creativity in its fullest sense includes both generating an idea and manifesting it- making something happen as a result.

I've never been in the music industry, only acting.