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.

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.

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.

Until the ego dissolves or evolves to become one with our true self, we remain slaves of our own egos.

I don't trust words. I trust pictures.

If you want to do something dangerous... Don't tell your girlfriend!

I believe whoever the Labour Party chooses to replace Tony Blair will beat David Cameron.

I don't think anything I could ever do could make Gene Kelly look better than he was.

Don't workout because you think you 'need' to, do it because your body deserves love, respect and healthy attention.

I do work a lot. I mean, most of my income, I would say, comes from live performances. And then you've got publishing, you've got record royalties.

Socialism is simply Communism for people without the testosterone to man the barricades.

We live, I am trying to say, in an epidemic of male violence against women.

Every woman should have four pets in her life. A mink in her closet, a jaguar in her garage, a tiger in her bed, and a jackass who pays for everything.