Why is the press America's showcase for freedom? Because just about everything else has been regulated.

Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.

Talk is cheap - except when Congress does it.

After our ages-long journey from savagery to civility, let's hope we haven't bought a round-trip ticket.

Strangers are what friends are made of.

We experience moments absolutely free from worry. These brief respites are called panic.

Discipline without freedom is tyranny; freedom without discipline is chaos.

The only way some of us exercise our minds is by jumping to conclusions.

The human body was designed to walk, run or stop; it wasn't built for coasting.

We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex - but Congress can.

The prime of life is that fleeting time between green and over-ripe.

I've always had a love affair with the ocean. It's my one and only true love.

Life experiences shared with a friend will turn into memories to be enjoyed.

Democratic Socialism devolves into totalitarian Socialism and eventually into full on Communism as people resist statism.

At the risk of appearing disingenuous, I don't really think of myself as 'writing humor.' I'm simply reporting on the world I observe, which is frequently hilarious.

Video games and YouTube.com are creatively booming, even though Web design, as demonstrated by the ugly clutter of most major news sites, is in the pits.

Patience s bitter, but it's fruit is sweet.

If you do anything well, gratitude is lighter than a feather; if you give offense in anything, people's wrath is as heavy as lead.

Greatness is a lot of small things done well, stacked up on each other.

It's essential that a part of you not grow up. Childhood wonder gives us our spark and beauty.

This is emphatically an age of discoveries; but I will venture the assertion, that none but an American slaveholder could have discovered that a man born in a country was not a citizen of it.