The pessimist sees only the tunnel; the optimist sees the light at the end of the tunnel; the realist sees the tunnel and the light - and the next tunnel.

There are always too many Democratic congressmen, too many Republican congressmen, and never enough U.S. congressmen.

We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we have stopped saying 'It got lost,' and say, 'I lost it.'

Real loneliness consists not in being alone, but in being with the wrong person, in the suffocating darkness of a room in which no deep communication is possible.

When a baseball player makes an error, it goes into the record and is published. How many of us could stand this sort of daily scrutiny?

If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?

Elitism is the slur directed at merit by mediocrity.