On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.

The university is our culture's assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.

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

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.

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.

Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.

My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.