The almost erotic pleasure of spending money that others have earned and saved is one reason people put up with the tiresome aspects of political life.

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.

Believing in unknown future, destiny, predestination without working hard to see it through is a mere fantasy

Like all young people, you are quite sure that you alone feel and think, you alone recognize danger, you alone are the only one clever enough to realise...

There were about six years when there was not one American who went into space. We shouldn't do that again.

I'm sure coach Frank Rijkaard will want the Dutch to go on and score a fourth now - although obviously they'll have to score the third one first.

Nobody steals from Creed Bratton and gets away with it. The last person to do this disappeared. His name? Creed Bratton.

People who don't listen make me annoyed. That's the normal stuff, isn't it?

I had been working in colour for ten years or so and looked at digital and liked the possibilities it gave me.

Wouldn't it be a tragedy to get to the top of the ladder and find you placed it against the wrong wall?

We think we have to do something to be grateful or something has to be done in order for us to be grateful, when gratitude is a state of being.

Dr Johnson said, the inscription should have been in Latin, as every thing intended to be universal and permanent, should be.