Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose.

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.

When we're together, I'm a leaf floating on a pond. Weightlessly in love.

He thought to himself that there could be no greater torture in the world than at the same time to love and to contemn.

Sexiness is about being an individual and having conviction about what that is.

Sometimes we feel the loss of a prejudice as a loss of vigor.

I'm quite a private person and I like my work to do the talking.

Am I a 'woman of action'? I don't think of myself that way.

Hearing from fans is the best feeling in the world.

We have the time, we have the knowledge, and we have the wisdom to move out into the world with love and power.

The overwhelming majority of social scientists were irreligious or even anti-religious. This led them to believe that religion was a disappearing and unimportant factor in human affairs.

If you don't have time, you don't have priorities.