This is an age in which one cannot find common sense without a search warrant.

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.

Romance is a tender kiss with a lingering promise of more to come.

People will Keep Digging in Your Past to find Reasons to convince themselves of letting you go.

The first rule in making money is not to lose it.

Life is a journey, education is our pleasure and our memory.

Videos destroyed the vitality of rock and roll. Before that, music said, "Listen to me." Now it says, "Look at me."

I set up situations that involve abandoning control and finding out what happens.

I cannot speak for the way God deals with others; I only know how he deals with me personally.

Practice is the battle you must win.

It's not what the dream is but what the dream does.

I can cure the gout or stone in some, sooner than Divinity, Pride, or Avarice in others.