An incompetent teacher is even worse than an incompetent surgeon because a surgeon can only cut up one person at a time.

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.

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.

As I watched my grandfather work with people who were impoverished, I began to understand that to be truly human, one must serve.

Your faith today, whether great, small or none controls your destiny tomorrow

I looked down at the brochure nearest me."We're going to Nigeria, " I threatened. "I hope you like elephant polo." -Liberty Jones

If you're going to have a heart attack, mine was the kind to have. I'm thankful that it hasn't affected my output or my capacity to perform. And it has given me a lot to think and write about.

Humility exists only in those who are poor enough to see that they possess nothing of their own.

The use of lines of code metrics for productivity and quality studies [is] to be regarded as professional malpractice starting in 1995.

A man forgets his good luck next day, but remembers his bad luck until next year.

The woman who cannot tell a lie in defense of her husband, is unworthy of the name of wife.

The main problem is that many support the United Russia Party without even agreeing with its ideology - or even having an ideology of their own.

You got to do more than just live in the country to be a Farmer.

Whose heart the accustom'd sight of death makes hard.