The professionals must set a good example.

I'm the world's expert on sterotypes held by academics about athletes and held by athletes about academics. To me, both of them are caricatures.

It is not enough to offer a smorgasbord of courses. We must insure that students are not just eating at one end of the table.

Talking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods.

Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process, where one rehearses constantly while acting, sits as a spectator at a play one directs, engages every part in order to keep the choices open and the shape alive for the student, so that the student may enter in, and begin to do what the teacher has done: make choices.

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.

Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.