Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.

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.

I watched him with wonder like the stars watch the moon, falling in love with every crescent, dark side, and dream.

Today you live, child. Tomorrow, you dream.

I am a product of two worlds and each world has given me a reason to love, be kind and grow strong.

Somehow people get the idea I think we should be given gumdrops whenever we do anything of value.

I wish my teammates, coaches and the entire Lions organization all the best.

We are all slaves to the shining metal.

Maybe Himalayan climbing is just a bad habit, like smoking, of which one says with cavalier abandon, must give this up some day, before it kills me.

A great philosopher in the wrong is like a beacon on the reefs which says to seamen: steer clear of me.

Now, there are two ways to approach a subject that frightens you and makes you feel stupid: you can embrace it with humility and an open mind, or you can ridicule it mercilessly.

The Bible makes it clear that self-righteousness is the premier enemy of the Gospel.