Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic ideals of openness, of social justice and of equal opportunity.

To take the measure of oneself by reference to one's colleagues leads to envy or complacency rather than constructive self-examination.

Yale's greatness carries an urgent need to guard against the fall of excellence into exclusivity, of refinement into preciousness, of elegance into class and convention.

We have to know the truth about the past to discover out future.

...if He has a message to get across to us, He will continually reaffirm what He has said through a variety of ways.

Some people handle the truth carelessly Others never touch it at all.

Nothing is more shameful than attacking sleeping children.

I would give anything for a female's hand on me tonight. they soften a man and then leave him listening to the rain.

Lately it has become more and more difficult to attend dinner parties without the evening ending in gunfire or tapioca.

If truth can be found in any sublunary science, numbers will produce it, for to that at last almost all other sciences refer for confirmation.

I think it's as popular as it ever has been and it continues to grow as it does all around the world.

How we speak to our children and the words we use can encourage and uplift them and strengthen their faith.

I just couldn't live without dogs