The professionals must set a good example.

A tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.

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

[Baseball] breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart.

Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.

You count on it, you rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then, just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops.

A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.