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

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.

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

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.

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.

Nescire autem quid antequam natus sis acciderit, id est semper esse puerum. (To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.)

Much time is spent on meaning while precious little time wasted has none!

My motto is that the audience should notice the actors, not the clothes.

Non-profit organizations think like non-profit organizations. That's the problem.

The most difficult thing about an easy match is to make a weak opponent play bad football.

Place is character. And all writing is regional.

Romances paint at full length people's wooing. But only give a bust of marriages.

I feel what they feel. And people who listen to me know that, and it makes them feel like they're not alone.

Culture of dependency leads to a life of slavery, being totally dependent upon government. And government dictates where they go in life.

I think everybody on this planet does that - trying to capture your dream after you wake up.