Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else.

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.

I will always wear this scar. It's called love.

It's okay to have faith in something that you can't see or touch.

A good show makes me happy. It's a great sensation. If you could capture a great atmosphere and do it every time, that would be amazing.

As someone who grew up in tough circumstances, I know that being on public assistance is not a spot that anyone wants to be in.

Through my handicaps, I have found my self, my work, my God.

Falsehood is never in words; it is in things.

You have to learn to love the small things in life, like a hot bath. You have to love the small things, when you have nothing else

What I keep searching for in movies, more and more, is the right gravity.

I would not describe myself as a left-wing filmmaker. I don't think this is the first thing that would pop into my mind when talking about my work.

Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.