A leader has to keep saying the same things over and over again.

I’m not the woman president of Harvard, I’m the president of Harvard.

If you don't pursue what you think will be most meaningful, you will regret it. Life is long. There is always time for Plan B. But don't begin with it.

Look to the past to help create the future. Look to science and to poetry. Combine innovation and interpretation. We need the best of both. And it is universities that best provide them.

Leadership is about moving people from where they are to where you hope they'll go.

The ability to recognize opportunities and move in new - and sometimes unexpected - directions will benefit you no matter your interests or aspirations.

The American Civil War produced carnage that has often been thought reserved for the combination of technological proficiency and inhumanity characteristic of a later time.

Those who are acquainted with failure acquire the unique ability to dare without fear of it.

Luck which so often defies anticipation in matrimonial affairs, giving attraction to what is moderate rather than to what is superior.

A life of prayer is a praise of being.

Decoration is really about creating a quality of life, and a beauty in that life that nourishes the soul, that makes life beautiful.

The greatest astonishment of my life was the discovery that the man who does the work is not the man who gets rich

We are a nation conceived, born and nurtured by faith... Our faith is declared in our Constitution, on our currency and in our lives.

She who is really a wife, one in heart, flesh, and bone, must follow wherever he leads, in whom her life, her strength, her pride, and happiness are centered.

Education that consists in learning things and not the meaning of them is feeding upon the husks and not the corn

I'm fascinated by politics. I love watching everyone from Neil deGrasse Tyson to Lawrence Krauss to people like Richard Dawkins and Noam Chomsky on YouTube.

Is not the most erotic part of the body wherever the clothing affords a glimpse?