Being wrong on facts, that's something you have a real responsibility to correct. But being wrong in the fun sports way is part of the interplay.

I never argue with people who say baseball is boring, because baseball is boring. And then, suddenly, it isn't. And that's what makes it great.

There's an old line that goes like this: An optimist is usually happy. And a pessimist is usually right. Maybe so. But which would you rather be, anyway?

Joe Paterno was a well-educated man, and he was also a man from a different time.

Spread your wings of love, and let your mind fly to a distant land where love is the air of life.

Some things never change. Not the ABC’s, not the multiplication tables, not God!

A youth with his first cigar makes himself sick a youth with his first girl makes everybody sick.

What Obama is about, in my opinion, is he is a Global redistributionist. He's pursuing reparations but it's not racial reparations. It's global reparations for the sins and conquest of colonism.

Now I'm having the time of my life being on the road with one of the world's all-time great big bands, and performing with symphonies. I wouldn't trade it for anything.

Manner, as much as matter, constitutes eloquence.

All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.

Photography, because it stops the flow of life, is always flirting with death.

Nothing comes from nothing, Thieflet; no story comes from nowhere; new stories are born from old--it is the new combinations that make them new.

If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many would be made useful members of society that otherwise would make no figure in it.