I am suggesting that quality in undergraduate education means giving students a perspective that is global.

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.

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.

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

Why don't you like the foods I like?" he asks sometimes. "Why don't you like the foods I make?" I answer.

Photography is not a lens but eye, not a business but art

Serving reconnects people to purpose. Serving someone else's dream empowers not just us, but them.

This must be the legendary Yankee rudeness

I'm an atheist, but I'm very relaxed about it. I don't preach my atheism, but I have a huge amount of respect for people like Richard Dawkins who do.

Art is a mystery. A mystery is something immeasurable.

The size of a person is more important than the size of the problem.

The worst kind of shame is being ashamed of frugality or poverty.

Often the oppressor goes along unaware of the evil involved in his oppression so long as the oppressed accepts it.

It is intensely frustrating to be misquoted.