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

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

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

Always give away your pure love without expecting any love in return. The universe will fill your heart with an abundance of love, joy and happiness again and again.

As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.

I dore not always touch her, lest the kiss Leave my lips charred. Yea, Lord, a little bliss, Brief, bitter bliss, one hath for a great sin; Nathless thou knowest how sweet a thing it is.

The road to ruin is always in good repair, and the travellers pay the expense of it.

I was paying attention to where Steven Soderbergh had the camera and his shots. I was blown away.

I believe more in concrete spirituality rather than in a spirituality that is divided from the body and from nature.

Each day means a new twenty-four hours. Each day means everything's possible again. You live in the moment, you die in the moment, you take it all one day at a time. -Day

That sense of what happened in Europe in World War II has shaped a lot of my views.

If someone is too tired to give you a smile, leave one of your own, because no one needs a smile as much as those who have none to give.

My wife and I both love cooking - I am an advanced male - so we argue about who gets to rustle up dinner.