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

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

[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.

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

rush of pine scent (once upon a time), the unlicensed convictionthere ought to be another wayof sayingthis.

Life is a great lesson so learn it to be great.

Refusal to accept the flow of the world is the root of all misery.

You can't call any one person the devil. Because no one person has the power to be the devil.

Peace may be negotiated by politicians, but it is something written in hearts and minds not on pieces of paper

I love playing other people's work. I love acting.

A flawless cup: how delicate and fine The flowing curve of every jewelled line! Look, turn it up or down, 'tis perfect still-- But holds no drop of life's heart-warming wine.

It's kind of weird to meet people that grew up in films who are still in touch with reality.

There is a cleavage and a divide in America like I have never seen before.

A man comes to measure his greatness by the regrets, envies and hatreds of his competitors.