Man is messy, but any creature that can create space vehicles can probably cope.

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.

Yes, you are creative and in slow, languid times, creativity peers out of your soul like a field mouse from its burrow at night.

What makes night within us may leave stars.

They say you can’t build Rome in a day, but I’m pretty sure you could destroy it in even less.

Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.

My dad taught me never to be afraid of what's on the other side of the mountain.

Everything passes. Everything experiences the birth and death cycle.

See, well ya see, the thing is, he should have caught that ball. But the ball is bigger than his hands.

Who is this Renaissance? Where did he come from? Who gave him permission to cram the Republic with his execrable daubs?

These women [abused by Donald Trump] certainly do have seen the statute of limitations expire. But if he attacks these women, they can allege defamation of their own .

I think the whole system of education would change if I were in charge and had the ability to make changes. I don't think I would keep Princeton exactly being Princeton.