We Americans have the great gifts of freedom and democracy, but it has been our education system that has fulfilled the promise of democracy.

To the extent that tenure supports academic freedom, I support tenure. I want no person or system to have any power, real or apparent, to chill academic freedom.

No state legislature ever built a great university.

You will act like the sort of person you conceive yourself to be.

Now your burnt ashes float to mingle with others And as I wait for another day I keep singing another song How did I go astray!

When I was 12, I forgot the keys to my parent's apartment. So I simply climbed up seven floors to get in.

The greatest invention of the nineteenth century was the invention of the method of invention.

I'm really passionate about music.

Pain now is better than pain deferred.

I played on the 2001 team, the team that won the most games in the history of Major League Baseball and also I played on one of the worst teams of Major League Baseball.

It brought Pittsburgh into the picture of football teams in the National Football League that, ‘OK, you have to deal with us now.’

Couldn't afford a car so he named his daughter Alexis

Forty years ago the chances of journalists reporting - or the authorities even prosecuting - a pro athlete were practically nil.