The great task of life is transmission: the task of transmitting the essential tools and graces of life from our parents to our children

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.

Most art is fragile and some should be placed and never moved away.

The outfits come and go but there is a constant that I like about the catwalk model: the snotty expression.

I do not believe one can experience conversion or the fullness of the Christian life apart from the church.

Since time out of mind, a considered act of heroism has been the cure for stultifying ambivalence.

I did 'Tumbleweeds' for fun. I did it because I loved it and I hardly even got paid.

Equality is not in the natural order of things, and the crusade to make everyone equal in every respect (except before the law) is certain to have disastrous consequences.

We're all going to die. While I'm still here, I want to make a difference.

Make your Vocation into Vacation and you will not have to work a single day.

We, the generation that faces the next century, can add the solemn injunction ''If we don't do the impossible, we shall be faced with the unthinkable.

Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness it is to be expecting evil before it comes.