When you wage war on the public schools, you're attacking the mortar that holds the community together. You're not a conservative, you're a vandal.

Selective ignorance, a cornerstone of child rearing. You don't put kids under surveillance: it might frighten you. Parents should sit tall in the saddle and look upon their troops with a noble and benevolent and extremely nearsighted gaze.

A man can't eat anger for breakfast and sleep with it at night and not suffer damage to his soul.

Years ago, manhood was an opportunity for achievement, and now it is a problem to be overcome.

Why is divorce so expensive? Because it's worth it!

Sport is a seductive metaphor (life as a game in which we gain victory through hard work, discipline, and visualizing success). but the older metaphor of farming (life as hard labor that is subject to weather and quirks of blind fate and may return no reward whatsoever and don't be surprised) is still in our blood.

A person does feel sheepish picking on journalists, a class already so richly despised that if a planeload of them crashed in flames, most people would smile from pure reflex.