Laws are like spiders webs which, if anything small falls into them they ensnare it, but large things break through and escape.

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.

This is God's world, so everything, even if it intends to efface God, bears witness to God – understood and interpreted through biblical eyeglasses.

If oil exploration can threaten a place as beautiful and meaningful as Virunga, where next?

People sometimes pay with their lives for saying aloud what they think. In fact, one can even get killed for giving me information. I am not the only one in danger. I have examples that prove it.

Boning is a pain, but it makes such a majestic chicken.

Develop a positive attitude. Think and picture how amazing you are going to be. Visualize it!

The film industry is about saying 'no' to people, and inherently you cannot take 'no' for an answer.

In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.

Prohibitions create the desire they were intended to cure.

People have a right to my food, a right to my housing, and a right to my good job for my decent pay.

It is only through mystery and madness that the soul is revealed.