Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too.

It's a radical change from the 60s, when the first black person ever in a commercial was a little kid sliding into second base. He's just a flash and you have to stop and look 10 times to see that he's black.

This is something that these kinds of shows always worry about, but it never makes very much difference. When Bryant Gumbel left, everybody thought Matt Lauer was a lightweight. He's done well. Meredith is obviously very bright, and she has good reporting experience. ... The 'Today' show will be fine.

There ain't much to being a ballplayer, if you're a ballplayer.

Achievements, seldom credited to their source, are the result of unspeakable drudgery and worries

How absurd these critics must seem to me, who in their modern wantonness have become so ingenious. They want to interpret my Tannhauser as specifically Christian and impute to him a tendency to impotent glorification!