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

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.

There's nothing bad that accrues from baseball.

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.

No one man is superior to the game.

All I ever wanted to be president of was the American League.

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.