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.

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.

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

Being surrounded by successful people, doesn't mean you made it.

Don't settle for what life gives you; make life better and build something.

I've always been a strong family advocate. I had a wonderful family growing up

Some people wish above all to conform to the rules, I wish only to render what I can hear.

If I'm stuck, I get up from my chair and I wash windows. Or... clean the bathroom. Or vacuum the attic. There's always something to be done.

We have pursued public policies that kind of hold the recovery back, but the private economy is really starting to roll.

In the calculus of feelings, you never really know how one person's absence will affect you more than another's.

I'd always liked jogging because it was a place to think.

This earth is a garden, this life a banquet, and it's time we realized that it was given to all life, animal and man, to enjoy.

Every obnoxious act is a cry for help.