For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.

A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.

Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.

[Baseball] breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart.

No one man is superior to the game.

Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.

Talking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods.

Americans have been remarkably devoted to the capacity for belief, to idealism. That's why we get into trouble all the time. We're always viewed as naive.

Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.

The university is our culture's assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.

To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.

I don’t talk much because talking without thought is not talking at all,

Without loyalty all the training in the world is useless. Worse than useless.

Surely she had endured enough for one evening without having to listen to intelligent conversation?

I tried to push him away with my head. I apologise to everyone. I should not have got involved in it.

The partner that you have is supposed to make you a better person, and when you're happy, you're a better person.

The United States was attacked on 9/11/12, and we know who attacked us.

Business money is limitless.

The worst thing for worker's is their bosses business going out of business.

When we look at what's going on in the world and we see the immense level of conflict that seems to always be happening - you can always trace it back to competing narratives.

I ride rough waters, and shall sink with no one to save me.