Childhood is frequently a solemn business for those inside it.

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.

What parent can give to their children is the gift of daily prayer.

Keep going, because there is nothing worse in this world than to stop. Simply keep flying ❤️

Life is a one shot deal, it is entirely up to you what you do with it. Me? I intend to make it the best I can, for as long as I can.

There's a lady up in heaven who must be very proud of the way the people in Baltimore have treated her boy from the Bronx.

I've instinctively hated the Tories since birth.

We're in a pretty tumultuous world, and there's a lot of uncertainty. Treasurys are where people go as one of the few safe havens in the world.

An essential portion of any artist's labor is not creation so much as invocation

David Bergen is a master of taut, spare prose that's both erotic and hypnotic. . . .

Eighteen is a terrible age, and while I walked around with the conviction that I was somehow more grown-up than my classmates, the truth was that I had merely found a different way of being young.

It's cool to be in the paper every once in awhile and people read about you and they know who you are.