Research must continue to be the centerpiece of intellectual life, and our commitment to research must grow, because our problems are growing.

Music gives us a language that cuts across the disciplines, helps us to see connections and brings a more coherent meaning to our world.

A poor surgeon hurts one person at a time. A poor teacher hurts 130.

Education is a seamless web: one level of learning relates to every other.

The connectedness of things is what the great university is all about, and I believe the great university in the coming century will be described as a community of scholars.

To put it simply, school readiness means creating in this country a public love of children.

I am suggesting that quality in undergraduate education means giving students a perspective that is global.

Literature is an inquiry into the deepest yearnings of the human spirit.

Based upon the pictures, I concluded that about 60 percent of all college classes in the United States are held outside, underneath a tree, usually by a gently flowing stream.

An incompetent teacher is even worse than an incompetent surgeon because a surgeon can only cut up one person at a time.

As I watched my grandfather work with people who were impoverished, I began to understand that to be truly human, one must serve.

In order to understand our life mission and answer the question “Where am I going?” we need to grow and shape our personality

When we get impatient because something is taking too long, we should remember that Life waits on us a thousand times more than we wait on Life.

I was enjoying myself now. I had taken two finger bowls of champagne and the scene had changed before my eyes into something significant, elemental and profound.

You can tax the rich all you want. The problem is there aren't enough of the rich.

No one would ever say that someone with a broken arm or a broken leg is less than a whole person, but people say that or imply that all the time about people with mental illness

Thursday! It can’t be! It’s too gruesome!

You cannot be serious!

Acknowledgment of God is not now, or ever has been, a violation of the US constitution.

One of the key qualities that you need to be a great hockey player is fantastic anticipation and feel for the game - if you know where the puck is going before it is hit, that is half the battle.