I tend to deal with most issues with humor... always have and always will.

When the fabric of the universe becomes unknown, it is the duty of the university to produce weavers.

I often have said that to be a college president, you need a thick skin, a good sense of humor, and nerves like sewer pipes.

If people want to pigeon hole you then just view it as an opportunity to prove them wrong and show that you are different to what they think you are.

Intellectual curiosity drove Einstein to some of the world's most important discoveries.

I believe that it is higher education's purpose and calling to keep open the door to the American dream.

I spent the first 18 years of my life in the pastoral town of Vernal, Utah, in the shadows of the Book Cliffs and the Uinta Mountains.

So if a college education is indispensable, the challenge as I see it is how to make it more accessible.

To be sure, American higher education is a diverse ecosystem, comprising institutions of all sizes, price tags, and mission statements.

I believe everything learned in college is an answer to a question that someone has posed. Questions get posed differently and the answers that come back transport us to places we never knew existed.

Being president of a major public university is the most political nonpolitical office around.

Everyone has the Capacity to Succeed…Ceteris Paribus!

Life is enough grace.

We tend to see what we are looking for.

Among many people with you

Make me a shadow on the wall!

The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets.

The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.

Hopefully standup will become special again.

I stopped caring what people thought.

If we can send a person to the moon, we can send someone with AIDS to the moon, and then someday we can send everybody with AIDS to the moon.