It is not enough to offer a smorgasbord of courses. We must insure that students are not just eating at one end of the table.

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.

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

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.

P6-the sociological imagination enables us to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within sociey.

We were in a phase, through television and the movies, of living only vicariously. Even faintly sordid silliness excited us if it put us in contact with love.

I come to the point of using steel, and simply cannot. It's like the marriage proposal of a perfectly eligible man who just isn't loveable. It is wood I love.

I'm proud of everybody in our organization. Not every story has a happy ending. Doesn't mean it's a bad story.

I think it's important to have some documentation of the past.

Why do we have to wait for special moments to say nice things or tell people we care about them?

Art springs from life but it doesn't mean we have to be tyrannized by it.

I don't care with my popularity

My three P's would be pray, pray first. Second, prepare, and then persist.

I am damn good. I am doing all this for Egypt and nothing else. I reject 70 per cent of media interviews while these people who accuse me are running after them.