Baseball is Heaven's gift to mortals.

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.

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.

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I'm listening to a lot of John Mayer again. I stopped listening to emotional music because I was in a really emotional place in my life.

The mother is not dying exactly, but has reached a point in life where death is a familiar on the staircase.

There are always opportunities through which businessmen can profit handsomely if they will only recognize and seize them.

The self-regulating mechanism of the market place cannot always be depended upon to produce adequate results in scientific research.

Depth has one address: fidelity in love.

The program of our movement stems from the fundamental moral laws and order.

I asked for help, which is the hardest thing in the world.

How can you wonder what's going to happen when you don't know who's going to be the new guy in town?