The greatest respect is owed to a child.
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 breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone.
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.
There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.
Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.
This is not the first time in my life where you know going into a job that you're going to hear in stereo what was wrong with what you did.
It has always been my opinion since I first possessed such a thing as an opinion, that the man who knows only one subject is next tiresome to the man who knows no subject. Therefore, in the course of my life I have taught myself whatever I could, and although I am not an educated man, I am able, I am thankful to say, to have an intelligent interest in most things.
What we have as artists is the immortalization opportunity that others don't have, because our work is lasting; it's there forever to view.
Not all friendships take a long time to grow and deepen. Some are formed in an instant.
One day, I got so disgusted that I sat down and wrote a list called 'Justin's list of things to do before he kicks the bucket. ' I wrote it for myself and shortened it to 'Justin's Bucket List. ' It was there on the wall, not as a story idea but as a motivational tool for myself, which actually ended up working pretty well.