Freedom is not only the absence of external restraints. It is also the absence of irresistible internal compulsions, unmanageable passion, and uncensorable highlights.

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.

Faction is that hybrid of documented fact and novelistic elaboration.

What I want is for the two of us to meet somewhere by chance one day, like, passing on the street, or getting on the same bus.

I watch worry and anxiety being pandered to through technology which is neutral.

Motivation is the essence of human progress.

He did everything to-get-her but together was never his goal.

Let us move on and step out boldly though it be into the night and we can scarcely see the way. A Higher Intelligence than the mortal sees the road before us.

To be knighted, that would be amazing. I remember Alex Ferguson from Man Utd got it and Steve Redgrave - to be in the same category as them is amazing.

Throughout my life I have dreamed of coaching at the University of Michigan.

The lesson that has been hardest for me to learn: there is nothing to prove.

Steeping my life in beauty brings color to my days and a song to my heart