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

As I grew up, I knew that as a building it was on the level of Mount Olympus, the Pyramid of Giza, the nation's capital, the czar's winter palace, and the Louvre - except, of course, that it was better than all of those inconsequential places.

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

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.

Baseball is about homecoming. It is a journey by theft and strength, guile and speed, out around first to the far island of second, where foes lurk in the reefs and the green sea suddenly grows deeper, then to turn sharply, skimming the shallows, making for a shore that will show a friendly face, a color, a familiar language and, at third, to proceed, no longer by paths indirect but straight, to home.

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.

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