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.

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.

Like war, love - all kinds of love - is for men who can take it. If they dare.

We just start putting our ideas out there, yet how do we actually attack contemporary problems? We do what some of the most successful American businesses do. We outsource and collaborate

One can transform a place by reading in it.

I've striven my whole life for humility, but if I'd ever achieved it, I'd probably be pretty damn proud of that.

Let mourning stop when one's grief is fully expressed.

Action is redemption.

He submits himself to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.

If you were enough like God, some one wouldn't like you.

Discrimination against Jews can be read in Thomas Aquinas, and insults against Jews in Martin Luther.

I believe that photographers should be passionate, determined, disciplined and ready to seek out their own styles and identities.