As countries embrace mass higher education, the cost of maintaining universities increases dramatically relative to an elite system.

There is far too much law for those who can afford it and far too little for those who cannot.

The first country to adopt happiness as an official goal of public policy is the tiny little country of Bhutan in Asia near China and India.

I think one thing that does cause unhappiness is protracted anxiety and worry.

If you think the cost of education is high, think about ignorance.

I think any self-respecting educational institution ought to judge its policies by its best estimate of what their long-term consequences for their students and for the society will be.

There's a great deal of difference between thinking reflectively about moral issues and achieving higher standards of ethical behavior.

I suspect that no community will become humane and caring by restricting what its members can say.

The oldest of the arts and the youngest of the professions.

Universities are institutions run by amateurs to train professionals.

I won't say there aren't any Harvard graduates who have never asserted a superior attitude. But they have done so to our great embarrassment and in no way represent the Harvard I know.

It has been my experience, that women possess little or no pride where love affairs are concerned. Pride is a quality often on their lips, but not apparent in their actions.

Good, ’ he said. ‘Cause Maggie’s all the nightmare I can take.’I smiled. ‘Gus, I never knew you dreamed of me.’He gave me a one-fingered salute.

I don't think of myself as a jazz musician but a medicine man.

I had a messy signature as a child, and my grandmother said this suggested I had no regard for other people. She was right.

I'm walking insecurity. Without all this makeup, I look like a refugee when I get up in the morning.... I generally look like one major bowwow. I mean arf.

People should embrace themselves.

Leonid Breznev was an old man and despite his own military experience in World War II, he on the other hand was not very close to the military.

Sacrifice is the first element of religion, and resolves itself in theological language into the love of God.

Writing is seeing. It is paying attention.

I'm always moving forward creatively and don't like stalling, trying to find the perfect snare drum sound.