Stalin's henchman Molotov, 96, died old and in bed, a privilege he helped to deny to millions.

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.

One of life's sorest tragedies is that the people who brim with confidence are always the wrong people.

I can no longer face life, so I've decided to go through the rest of it backwards.

The writing of histories - as Goethe once noted - is one way of getting rid of the weight of the past.... The writing of history liberates us from history.

Joseph Mattson is a monster of a writer.

I go home by noon, and I'm in bed by 6 p.m. I get up at 1 and do it again.

Don't ever think that somebody isn't important or not good enough, because you never know which way the road will take you.

When you're young you have no worries, no drama, only your imagination. It's the best!

Good heavens, television is something you appear on; you don't watch.

It was so much fun working with these young kid actors. We had a great time and those kids are truly amazing.

I am the mother of a 6-year-old now, so that's changed my entire perspective.