The average American expends more time becoming informed about choosing a car than choosing a candidate. But, then, the consequences of the former choice are immediate and discernible.

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.

How can the sky be the limit if there are footsteps on the moon?

Never let your tiny age misguide you to think the time is not yet up. Get up and do it at any age.

True love comes from the heart, it is very simple and nonjudgmental.

I took a road that wasn't the road, but it was something I chose and that's fine.

Boredom is the Devil's delight.

We try, we fail, we posture, we aspire, we pontificate - and then we age, shrink, die, and vanish.

Write 100 things that you love about your partner. It's another way of keeping yourself in check. It's hard to do.

Globalization has altered the dynamics in the White House, as well as between the White House and the Treasury.

When I was a kid, nobody told me I was good-looking. I wish they had. I would've had a better time.

For me, writing is 75 percent procrastinating and 25 percent actually sitting down and working.