General ideas are no proof of the strength, but rather of the insufficiency of the human intellect.

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.

Joy of life is to be content.

So you love war. I used to think you were a decent man. But I see now I was mistaken. You're a hero.

Food, like a loving touch or a glimpse of divine power, has that ability to comfort.

Everything we say is a story. But nothing we say is just a story.

Will our souls, hurrying on in diverse paths, unite once more, as if the interval had been a dream?

What did I do in high school? I grew from 5 feet 4 inches to 6 feet 2 inches.

I always just wanted to be a movie actress, like Lily Tomlin or Ruth Gordon. I just imagined myself being in a movie, wearing stylish women's clothing the way I saw Amy Irving wearing it.

You shine like a beacon in a dark world.

I think about making a comeback every single day. I went running, I went training, did that for a few days. But my body couldn't handle it.