The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.

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

Baseball's best teams lose about sixty-five times a season. It is not a game you can play with your teeth clenched.

Each achieves one or both of two objectives — making liberals feel good about themselves and being good to liberal candidates.

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

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

Baseball's rich in wonderful statistics, but it's hard to find one more beautiful than Stan Musial's hitting record. He didn't care where he was, he just hit.