“Poor Mexico. So far from God and so close to the United States.”

“مسكينة هي المكسيك !! .. لبعدها عن الله ،ولقربها من الولايات المتحدة !(الرئيس المكسيكي بورفيرو دياز)Poor Mexico, so far from Godand so close to the United States”

“Poor Wales. So far from Heaven, so close to England.”

“Obedience unites us so closely to God that it in a way transforms us into Him, so that we have no other will but His.If obedience is lacking, even prayer cannot be pleasing to God.”

“I have a tremendous fascination with the United States of America, the grand, swirling variousness of it, the way it siphons off the ambitious, the poor, and the abused from so many other nations, the ability we seem to have to be noble and heroic at the same time as we are being arrogant and stupid.”

“The state of man's mind, or the elementary phase of mind which he so far possesses, conforms precisely to the state of the world as he so far views it”