On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.

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.

Pleasure for an hour a bottle of wine pleasure for a year marriage pleasure for a lifetime a garden.

That's the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous.

I love Beyonce. She's so fierce. I also love Lily Allen, and she was an influence on my music.

We are all so privileged to be citizens of America, and we all need to be engaged.

Yes, it's quite amazing how I continue to shock my mother even after all these years together

Tone is often the most important part of a conversation - and listening is so much more important than what you say.

If you could do better, should you?

There were times when I was so sick of talking about the Bible.

No one is contented in this world, I believe. There is always something left to desire, and the last thing longed for always seems the most necessary to happiness.

We often don’t realize that the extraordinary is to be found in the lives of ordinary people.