I'm not going to sit here now and say 'do this,' or 'do that.' But you must - must - expunge any vestige of racism.

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.

Forgiveness is the highest form of a gift of kindness and it brings freedom from the prison of hatred and revenge.

Climb the day, Drop your dreams, Possess the day.

The best magic always results from ecstasies of logic.

I love theater. I grew up doing theater.

I constantly work at maintaining balance. For me, my family comes first. If my family is taken care of, then everything else usually falls into place.

Personal power is really the issue. It is only through tremendous attention to detail that you will be able to gain personal power and searing self-honesty.

God is love and love is everywhere, however you need to see it or experience it, whatever name you have for it.

I really want my kids to feel, is that they can be themselves in the world.

You cannot create what you want by moving away from what you don't want.

I am a sensitive writer, actor and director. Talking business disgusts me. If you want to talk business, call my disgusting personal manager.