The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement.

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.

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.

We are given children to test us and make us more spiritual.

Biblical community is first of all the sharing of a common life in Christ.

This Roberto. He no like the light.

I judge people very quickly.

The human tongue is like wasabi: it's very powerful, and should be used sparingly.

At my second record label, they told me and other female artists that some of us were going on the chopping block. I was 19... and it was devastating.

The changing climate is a threat to human rights.

I’m a nerdy, geeky fan of Labyrinth and Dark Crystal.

Glenn Gould was my hero. Glenn Gould was my idol. I loved him.

If I had my personal view, perhaps that might take hold. In fact, I don't want to see another dog or cat born.

Chains tie us down by land and sea; And wishes, vain as mine, may be All that is left to comfort thee.