Remember Henry Adam's jest that the succession of presidents from Washington to Grant disproved the theory of evolution?

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.

Teachers should be very careful not to spoil their pupils' taste for poetry for all time by making it a task and an imposition.

Pouring out ideas is better for creativity than doling them out by the teaspoon.

A wheel that can be turned though nothing else moves with it, is not a part of the mechanism.

Us as rappers underestimate the power and effects that we have on these kids

Free from attachments to the past and worries about the future, a child expresses him/herself fully.

It's the middle class that feels the luxury of being able to have causes.

Our first computers were born not out of greed or ego, but in the revolutionary spirit of helping common people rise above the most powerful institutions.

Women blame men for their own singlehood.

I was paid to read Western economic texts. In a way, the regime paid for their own undermining.

Commonplace objects are constantly changing… The pies, for example, we now see, are not going to be around forever. We are merely used to the idea that things do not change.