The professionals must set a good example.

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.

Christ . . . didn’t come to treat symptoms. He came to get at the very heart of man’s disease.

You have to learn how to take care of yourself. Who you need, is you. It was always about and for you.

Do not say "It is morning " and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.

When you're interviewing someone, you're in control. When you're being interviewed, you think you're in control, but you're not.

The flesh is a worse enemy than the devil himself.

Humanity has been passing through a gray and desolate time of confusion.

Everyone goes through their evolution and I go through mine and you go through yours.

Life is a disease, sexually transmitted and fatal.

The few things I’d sacrificed, or put on hold, to be with my husband and baby were worth it.

Just as all the world loves a lover, it has been my experience that all the world loves a trailerite.