Asian colleges would do well to use a broad range of criteria in selecting students and move beyond the unproductive "examination hell. "

Never underestimate the difficulty of changing false beliefs by facts

I draw a contrast between American shared governance with "the dictatorship of ministries" wherein policy and direction for the university is ordered by bureaucrats who have never taught a class.

The faculty know what they need to develop and they need to work with an administrator with the authority do get it done. To define everything in terms of these index numbers is ridiculous.

English is not the primary language for universities in China, Korea, and Japan, but they are being evaluated on the basis of publications in English and courses taught in English.

The task of building a great university is never simple.

You are not smoking cigarette, it's cigarette that is smoking you.

Savor every little bit of life and spin your own wonderfully beautiful web.

To open avenues to political place and power for all classes of women would cause these humble labors of the family and school to be still more undervalued and shunned.

It's alarming how quickly people adjust to adventures when they are in one. You really have to work at being astonished by life.

I keep my backstory pretty private and personal.

We choose what attitudes we have right now. And it's a continuing choice.

Fears and lies intensify consciousness.

I hope I left behind a legacy that people will enjoy. But whatever they want to say, I can't predict.

It's funny how you can think you know someone pretty well, and then something happens or they do something that makes you understand that you didn't really know them at all.

When we get into the spirit world, and the veil is withdrawn, we shall then perhaps understand the whys and wherefores.