It's a Little Leaguers game that major leaguers play extraordinarily well, a game that excites us throughout adulthood. The crack of the bat and the scent of the horsehide on leather bring back our own memories that have been washed away with the sweat and tears of summers long gone...even as the setting sun pushes the shadows past home plate.

I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work 15 and 16 hours a day. I saw him once literally bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable to speak the language, who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example.

Most of us have achieved levels of affluence and comfort unthought of two generations ago. We've never had it so good, most of us. Nor have we ever complained so bitterly about our problems.

You want calamities? What about the Ice Age? God made this world, but didn't complete it.

A judge can manipulate the law. A smart lawyer can keep a killer out of jail.

For too many, the dream of economic mobility has been replaced with a nightmare of economic stagnation.

Decide exactly what you want to achieve. Do you want to help people, or do you want to be powerful?