Actually, there is only one first question of government, and it is How should we live? or What kind of people do we want our citizens to be?

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.

She felt the intimate loss of who was meant to become.

You cannot step twice into the same river for other waters are continually flowing on.

The longest suicide note in history.

You are always factoring in the economy within the process of creating something, and making decisions that seem both fearless and full of fear.

I just feel like Brits are honest - period. And that's what I like.

I'm not that girl from Freaky Friday any more! I'm a real adult. In fact, I hate children! I hate them all!

I'm a workaholic, so I read everything that's out there.

Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.

Will the new environmental leaders fight for eco-equity in this new "green economy" they are birthing?

The things one wants the most, are not things after all.