Baseball has always been filled with negative statistics.
Reason cannot establish values, and its belief that it can is the stupidiest and most pernicious illusion.
Education is the movement from darkness to light.
The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of other possibilities, that makes it seem inconceivable that other ways are viable, that removes the sense that there is an outside.
Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise. . . specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine.
The artist is the most interesting of all phenomena, for he represents creativity, the definition of man.
Education is not the taming or domestication of the soul's raw passions - not suppressing them or excising them, which would deprive the soul of its energy - but forming and informing them as art.
Iris, if you were a melody. . . piano melody. I used only the good notes.
Many are willing that Christ should be something, but few will consent that Christ should be everything.
if companies are in business solely to make money, no consumer can fully trust what they do or say.
My size has helped make me an amazing performer too. The cliche of the Funny Fat Friend: I absolutely was that character - I am that character. . . It's a complicated bag of tools I acquired, and I've put them all to work onstage.