Greater inequality in Europe has made people less happy.

As countries embrace mass higher education, the cost of maintaining universities increases dramatically relative to an elite system.

There is far too much law for those who can afford it and far too little for those who cannot.

The first country to adopt happiness as an official goal of public policy is the tiny little country of Bhutan in Asia near China and India.

I think one thing that does cause unhappiness is protracted anxiety and worry.

If you think the cost of education is high, think about ignorance.

I think any self-respecting educational institution ought to judge its policies by its best estimate of what their long-term consequences for their students and for the society will be.

There's a great deal of difference between thinking reflectively about moral issues and achieving higher standards of ethical behavior.

I suspect that no community will become humane and caring by restricting what its members can say.

The oldest of the arts and the youngest of the professions.

Universities are institutions run by amateurs to train professionals.

Cuba changed you. I changed you. And you are changing me.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

The details are not the details. They make the design.

We know that when people are safe in their homes, they are free to pursue their dream for a brighter economic future for themselves and their families.

There's no more film; now everything's digital. I welcome this. It's fantastic for me to have a new chance.

I love to act. I need to act. It's the big itch I need to scratch.

People that keep stiff upper lips find that it's hard to smile.

Maybe, just maybe, we shall at last come to care for the most important, most challenging, surely the most satisfying of all architectural creations: building cities for people to live in.

When in that House MPs divide/If they've a brain and cerebellum, too/They've got to leave that brain outside/And vote just as their leaders tell 'em to.

Life is like a snowball. The important thing is finding wet snow and a really long hill.