Modern Americans travel light, with little philosophic baggage other than a fervent belief in their right to the pursuit of happiness.

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.

Honesty is easier when you have no face and no real name. And honesty, for me, is very easy on paper.

When I am upset about something, it gives me a stomachache. I have to address it right away so that I don't make myself sick.

The word is the Guru, The Guru is the Word, For all nectar is enshrined in the world Blessed is the word which reveal the Lord's name But more is the one who knows by the Guru's grace.

A man always blames the woman who fools him. In the same way he blames the door he walks into in the dark.

Every person has a zakaat (to pay) and the zakaat of the body is fasting.

The moon is brighter since the barn burned.

Today, I don't even think that people like [James Baldwin] are possible. He would not have that much room.

A man is sane only to the extent that he subscribes to a previously-agreed construction of reality.

What an illusion Mahamaya has conjured up! Here is this infinite world, and what one claims as his possession will be left behind at death. Still men cannot understand this simple truth.

I wondered if it was really because he cared about me, or if now I was just another challenge.