Say nothing but good of the 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.

Today's partners can be your competitors tomorrow. And today's competitors can be your partners tomorrow.

Passions unguided are for the most part mere madness.

That's one of the great things about Thanksgiving: Football's on!

Every great idea starts out as a blasphemy.

Our prayers must not be efforts to bend God to our will but to yield ourselves to His.

When you're in a car which can win every race, or fight for a win every race, that is pressure.

I went out with the same girl throughout all four years of high school.

If the man doesn't believe as we do, we say he is a crank, and that settles it. I mean, it does nowadays, because now we can't burn him.

We want to make it socially, morally, politically and religiously unacceptable to have substandard housing and homelessness.

For some reason, my temper was hardwired to my tear ducts. I usually cried when I was angry, a humiliating tendency.