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

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.

Something inside of me began to tear.

No wife wants to hear that her husband is less than perfect.

Time is an illusion. Time only exists when we think about the past and the future. Time doesn't exist in the present here and now.

Nothing can be born of nothing; nothing can be resolved into nothing.

What else do we all want, each one of us, except to love and be loved, in our families, in our work, in all our relationships?

It's a beautiful day for a night game.

Thinking clearly and effectively is the greatest asset of any human being.

I think it's good to have an old fashioned musical as well as new musicals. There's a lot of room for different shows.

Don't ever be someone you're not. We are all that we are, so why try to change that?

Citizens United said that transparency would be the disinfectant, but (c)(4)'s are warm, wet, moist incubators. There is no disinfectant.