It is axiomatic: When there is no penalty for failure, failures proliferate.

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.

I don't understand why did jesus give life to the dead when they have to die again?

Be curious, confident and courageous.

Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.

It is not arrogant or egotistical to feel good inside. You had nothing to do with it. It's simply the honest response to clearly perceived Reality.

I will spend the rest of my life trying to earn back trust and apologize to people.

I think everything happens in time. There's a time for everything. There's a time to be in a group, and there's a time to be solo.

It's always inspiring to watch live music.

As a practical matter, every immigrant needs to master English to be a full participating citizen and to have full economic opportunity.

dead in the mind, meanin you're present but your ignorance only makes ur presense worse!

I don't know much about that whole grunge thing.