Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all holes, or games, are created equal.

Some parents say it is toy guns that make boys warlike. But give a boy a rubber duck and he will seize its neck like the butt of a pistol and shout 'Bang!'

Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many American excesses.

The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement.

Ronald Reagan has held the two most demeaning jobs in the country; President of the United States and radio broadcaster for the Chicago Cubs.

The unpleasant sound Bush is emitting as he traipses from one conservative gathering to another is a thin, tinny "arf" - the sound of a lap dog.

Sports is a moral undertaking because it requires of participants, and it schools spectators in the appreciation of, noble things - courage, grace under pressure, sportsmanship.

A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.

A society that thinks the choice between ways of living is just a choice between equally eligible 'lifestyles' turns universities into academic cafeterias offering junk food for the mind.

Donald Trump is redundant evidence that if your net worth is high enough, your IQ can be very low and you can still intrude into American politics.

We are given children to test us and make us more spiritual.

Facts do not fall in the face of discomfort.

The Thames was beautiful, dark, and swift beneath the billion yellow and white lights of the city…

When we shift our perception, our experience changes.

If we build the people, they'll build the business

We are almost always wearied in the company of persons with whom we are not permitted to be weary.

It's always a difficult time to be secretary general.

Deflation and secular stagnation are the risks of our time.

When a person applies enthusiasm to his job, the job will itself become alive with exciting new possibilities.

Nature was not satisfied by a simple point charge but required a charge with spin.