A poor surgeon hurts one person at a time. A poor teacher hurts 130.

Music gives us a language that cuts across the disciplines, helps us to see connections and brings a more coherent meaning to our world.

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.

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

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.

Examine the energy you are sending into the world. Is it positive, loving and hopeful or is it negative, hostile and angry?

The brutal reality of politics would be probably intolerable without drugs.

I cannot kill someone, he thought.

It’s in how you carry yourself. I’ve always been a very mature person, and I’ve always known what I wanted. And I go after it no matter what.

She wants to be flowers, but you make her owls. You must not complain, then, if she goes hunting.

Loving everything about yourself - even the 'unacceptable' - is an act of personal power. It is the beginning of healing.

Getting things done in this country, if you want to build something, if you want to start a company, it's getting to be virtually impossible with all of the bureaucracy and all of the approvals.

Jude has a very different character. It is not the cradle of Christianity, or of the assembly on earth: it is its decay and its death here below. It does not keep its first estate.

Leadership is what you need to learn next