Football combines the two worst features of American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings.

The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.

Talk about presidents "taking" the country hither and yon is part of the foam of presidential elections.

There may be arrogance – and the laziness of someone who is indefatigable when doing what he enjoys, but only when doing that.

People who have nothing much in mind for next week speak instead about the next century or millennium.

Time was when much of lawyering consisted (according to turn-of-the-century lawyer and statesman Elihu Root) in "telling would-be clients that they are damned fool's, and should stop.

In this age of 'whatever, ' Americans are becoming slaves to the new tyranny of nonchalance. " James Morris

He was one of the fortunate few for whom there simply was no discernible line between work and play, between creation and recreation.

The most capricious modern entitlement is not just Social Security but to self-esteem.

Liberalism is not fond of fun, or at least of many forms of fun that many people like.

In Gladstone's mature years he lost faith not in God but in the ability of any government or state to act as the agent of God.

It's not that we have little time, but more that we waste a good deal of it.

Modern culture anesthetizes the mind while mainlining the soul with emotional experiences that keep the worldling believing he is really living.

Lincoln matured best in sorrow.

Great and good are seldom the same man.

My life and my legs have been an open book.

In betting on races, there are two elements that are never lacking - hope as hope, and an incomplete recollection of the past.

Peace among the nations, like happiness for the individual, is not an end, but a by-product that usually comes when you live right.

Bill Hanna and I owe an awful lot to television, but we both got our start and built the first phase of our partnership in the movies.

I'm kind of the town pump. I think I have a pretty good ear for what sounds good in this style.

I think the concern over rising interest rates is ahead of itself because I think inflationary fears themselves might be premature.