Tennis belongs to the individualistic past - a hero, or at most a pair of friends or lovers, against the world.

Of course, clothing fashions have always been impractical, except in Tahiti.

If it were possible to talk to the unborn, one could never explain to them how it feels to be alive, for life is washed in the speechless real.

The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers

Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred.

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.

The truth is, when all is said and done, one does not teach a subject, one teaches a student how to learn it.

If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.

Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game - and do it by watching first some high school or small-town teams.

Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.

People in science fiction flicks always seemed to know useful things about the places time travel took them. But what if the time traveler had been only an average history student? What then?

I may not know what is in store for me. However, I always know how I prefer to respond to my circumstances whatever they may be.

Be he the first to stand or the last, a man must stand, " the father had told his adoring son. "And if there is only one man, then that man must stand alone." ~Thomas to Bruce Wayne

A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.

One generation passeth away and another generation cometh, but the earth abideth forever.

Looks aren't the number one thing. They have to have class, intelligence, then looks. If I was the ugliest SOB in the world it would be a lot easier.

David has scored 62 goals in 148 games for Ipswich and those statistics tell me that he plays games and scores goals. (on David Johnson)

There is no dignity for either the sufferer or the torturer

A home is still the biggest asset that most Americans own.

Nothing is ever guaranteed, and all that came before doesn't predicate what you might do next.