The only authors whom I acknowledge as American are the journalists. They, indeed, are not great writers, but they speak the language of their countrymen, and make themselves heard by them.

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.

Women and men are lost in the same labyrinth .. on different floors.

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give.

DECIDE, v.i. To succumb to the preponderance of one set of influences over another set.

Even when I was coming through school I was a loner and I used to study music and listen to it and play it and play it, and I was in bands.

I never went to college - I barely got out of high school.

I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

He who possesses science and art, Possesses religion as well; He who possesses neither of these, Had better have religion.

My history as a manager cannot be compared with Frank Rijkaard's history. He has zero trophies and I have a lot of them.

Keeping a journal will change your life in ways that you'd never imagine.

Maybe it's true what Thomas Moore said: “It is only through mystery and madness that the soul is revealed.