My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.

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.

Resilience, thy name is Devine.

I've spent my life trying to make things simpler.

David will never go to space again. I'm glad.What did it gain the McQuarries? What has it ever gained men? Have men ever brought back more happiness from the stars? Will they ever?

Every genuine expression of love grows out of a consistent and total surrender to God.

I was a latecomer to politics. Maybe I'm just very slow. I got to everything when everyone else had left.

I love to get home and hang out with my family. My brothers and I love spending time at the beach. I enjoy doing all kinds of surf sports and keeping healthy.

I actually like being alone. I spend most evenings reading and taking long baths.

I'm hyped up when I'm working. Some people eat when they're hyped up and some people don't. I'm the 'don't.

I question my own talent and ability to make creative work every single day.

Betwixt the stirrup and the ground Mercy I asked, mercy I found.