Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.

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.

Bringing countries together above their conflicts require great minds and great hearts.

You don't have to reinvent the wheel... just steel the hubcaps.

Now, what’s stirring in this murky sea of complexity and foolishness is an almost suffocating need to breathe fresh history.

My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car.

My friends back home call me a warrior. In fact I'm a butterfly-faced warrior.

Positive self-esteem is the quality of simply saying thank you and accepting any value that is attributed to you by others.

May God in His mercy lead us through these times; but above all, may He lead us to Himself.

Sometimes a bit of distance can be very healthy. You can go away by yourself on a trip and come back very glad to be with your partner because you've cleared your head out of all the negativity.

I read "Up From Slavery" and then my dream - if I may so call it - of being a race leader dawned.

The Gospel is nothing less than laughter and joy.