The more one works, the better one works and the more one wants to work.

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.

To become a better you, don’t dream of becoming a superior over other people. Dream of becoming a superior over your previous achievements.

African American women actively contested white constructions of black female labor.

Music repairs us when it breaks the silence.

Happiness and success are not something that we can attain or possibly loose, but rather inside qualities that we have forgotten about during the very process of reaching them.

There are few things more powerful than a name. A single phrase that somehow becomes a symbol for an entire existence.

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

Surround yourself with supportive people. All the negative people, man you have to push them aside.

If you let culture make tolerance the preeminent virtue, pretty soon you won't have anything else.

The boy in the pearl gray suit could have been Jane's twin. His hair was darker, and his lips were not as full, but he was just as lovely.

Do not say, ‘You are bad’; say only, ‘You are good’, but be better!