American Quotes

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

The professionals must set a good example.

Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.

Some of my academic friends think I've fallen from a very special grace.

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

No one man is superior to the game.

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

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

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.

I'm not going to sit here now and say 'do this,' or 'do that.' But you must - must - expunge any vestige of racism.

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.

For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.

Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.

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.

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

A tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.

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.

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.

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

We've all had those moments where we take a person for granted.

There are amazing schools and amazing educators that are doing a wonderful job. And then there are a lot of educators that are not prepared to deal with inclusive education. They haven't been trained. It's really quite lovely and easy when you understand how to do it.

The world is changing and the physical barriers are down now. It's time for the emotional barriers to go down. And what better place to start than school?

It's fun to get really intense and emotionally detailed and complicated.

I'm a bit of a layman physics junkie. I don't really understand it, but I love trying to understand it.

I went to college in Pittsburgh at Carnegie Mellon University... studied acting there. Then I went to New York for about five years. I moved out here about 10 years ago.

I knew that I wanted to be an actor. Then it became about whether acting wanted me.So, I gave it a shot. It hasn't worked out too bad, so far.

I have a son, Mason, who is disabled - cerebral palsy - and he does not walk independently, sit independently or speak. He uses a talking computer. I started becoming an advocate for him when he was 3 years old.

I did theater at Carnegie, and in Pittsburgh and New York.

I believe in giving back.

I am willing to lend that hand, I will continue to stay involved with my charities as long as they need me.