It is no exaggeration to conclude that the Internet has achieved, and continues to achieve, the most participatory marketplace of mass speech that this country - and indeed the world - has yet seen.

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.

Butterfly upon my hand, A voice of wonder within my mind, not my own but the butterfly's.

No matter how strong you are, you don’t just fight any fight at all! When you fight a wrong fight, you die a wrong death!

There is no feeling like coming home after danger.

But why must choices always lie along a linear spectrum with two poles instead of say among a sphere of possibilities

As a television actor, there's a power you're given to use your image to do something valuable. As a parent, these messages are particularly important to me.

Sometimes I believe...Sometimes I really do believe.

I was five years old the first time I got drunk.

Too much is demanded by the critic, attempted by the poet.

As long as I'm sitting in the chair, there's not going to be any Jew appointed to that court. No Jew can be right on the criminal-law issue.

As the sun shines both on the cedar and the smallest flower, so the Divine sun illumines each soul.