To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.

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.

There are times in life when we need to allow a sad memory to run its course.

The coward sneaks to death the brave live on.

Admire the world for never ending on you -- as you would an opponent, without taking your eyes away from him, or walking away.

If you know me, you know I make every day count, I'm serious about my life.

There are eight levels of charity.... The highest is when you strengthen a man's hand until he need no longer be dependent upon others.

Not only do I have to live, right, I have to get some cash for my troubles - it's a scary thing, and people need to start to think about the messages that they send in the movies.

Deep-seated preferences cannot be argued about - you cannot argue a man into liking a glass of beer.

I am addicted to prescription pain medication.

I do not know, sir, that the fellow is an infidel; but if he be an infidel, he is an infidel as a dog is an infidel; that is to say, he has never thought upon the subject.

Man cannot live upon words, however he may try.