Democratic institutions generally give men a lofty notion of their country and themselves.

The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.

Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.

Despotism often presents itself as the repairer of all the ills suffered, the support of just rights, defender of the oppressed, and founder of order.

It is easier for the world to accept a simple lie than a complex truth.

There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.

A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.

There is no country in the world in which everything can be provided for by the laws, or in which political institutions can prove a substitute for common sense and public morality.

Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.

In the United States, the majority undertakes to supply a multitude of ready-made opinions for the use of individuals, who are thus relieved from the necessity of forming opinions of their own.

I do not know if the people of the United States would vote for superior men if they ran for office, but there can be no doubt that such men do not run.

No people and no part of a people shall be held against its will in a political association that it does not want.

I love photography. I like to write. I like coaching. I've made jewelry. I'm very creative.

L.A. is a vortex. The weather there tricks you into thinking you're on vacation, even when you're working fourteen hours a day.

My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in bed with her.

The ultimate idea of rags-to-riches success in America is the Hollywood movie star.

It is a good success to take people from the city to the forests; but there is a much greater success: To bring the forest to the people, to the cities! To bring heaven to the hell!

Mountain biking helps people become environmentalists. A mountain bike is a vehicle to appreciate the backcountry.

Although I have been through all that I have, I do not regret the many hardships I met, because it was they who brought me to the place I wished to reach.

Like all guests, after a fortnight, grief is best beyond the door.

Baptism is the door of the spiritual life and the gateway to the sacraments.