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.

Perhaps the soundest advice for parents is: Lighten up. People have been raising children for approximately as long as there have been people.

Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.

Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues.

The great task of life is transmission: the task of transmitting the essential tools and graces of life from our parents to our children

As Aristotle said, happiness is not a condition that is produced or stands on its own; rather, it is a frame of mind that accompanies an activity. But another frame of mind comes first. It is a steely determination to do well.

What is really shocking in America isn't what's done in and by Washington that is illegal by that what is done in and by Washington that's legal.