The faculty know what they need to develop and they need to work with an administrator with the authority do get it done. To define everything in terms of these index numbers is ridiculous.

Never underestimate the difficulty of changing false beliefs by facts

I draw a contrast between American shared governance with "the dictatorship of ministries" wherein policy and direction for the university is ordered by bureaucrats who have never taught a class.

English is not the primary language for universities in China, Korea, and Japan, but they are being evaluated on the basis of publications in English and courses taught in English.

Asian colleges would do well to use a broad range of criteria in selecting students and move beyond the unproductive "examination hell. "

The task of building a great university is never simple.

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

...it is often more difficult to remember to be mindful than to be mindful itself. (p. 47)

Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things.

To go on vegetating in cowardly dependence on physicians and machinations, after the meaning of life, the right to life, has been lost, that ought to prompt a profound contempt in society.

There is no point where art so nearly touches nature as when it appears in the form of words.

But as a young model, I never felt as beautiful as I looked.

Holy solitaries' is a phrase no more consistent with the Gospel than holy adulterers. The Gospel of Christ knows no religion but social; no holiness, but social holiness.

I mean yes to act out something or take chances in the performance is one thing. But in terms of a camera, whatever's captured is captured so that's a little more daunting.

Worn with tights it is not an issue, although there is something deeply unfeminist about not being able to sit down in one comfortably.

Every soul is destined to be perfect, and every being, in the end, will attain the state of perfection.