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

There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.

Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.

No one man is superior to the game.

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.

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

I think that the young people today feel a tremendous sense of responsibility to their brothers and sisters because of the sacrifices that most families make to send their children to college.