For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.

For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.

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

Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.

On a good day, I view the job [of president] as directing an orchestra. On the dark days, it is more like that of a clutch -- engaging the engine to effect forward motion, while taking greater friction.

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.