Art is humanity's most essential, most universal language. It is not a frill, but a necessary part of communication.

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.

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

When Christ's love fills our hearts, it puts selfishness on the run.

Of all human events, perhaps, the publication of a first volume of verses is the most insignificant; but though a matter of no moment to the world, it is still of some concern to the author.

Thus self-love as one part of human nature, and the several particular principles as the other part, are, themselves, their objects and ends, stated and shown.

The highest philosophers, in explaining the mystery of this world, are obliged to call in the aid of another.

City governments ought to be abolished, if only as a public health measure.

Smoking is one of the leading causes of all statistics.

What If Following Her Heart Means Rose Could Lose Her Best Friend Forever?

Happiness is present time, it has nothing to do with the future.

When you've got Roger Ailes on your side, you do not lose.

Is is in the small decisions you and I make every day that create our destiny.