If we are prepared to invest the necessary time and effort, affirmative action can contribute to Harvard's quality and not detract from it.

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.

My butt has a maximum drive time of seven hours.

How is it that mankind can engineer condoms to prevent pregnancy and STDs and not be able to invent some sort of emotional safeguard? Is it even possible to abstain from falling in love?

True tragedy may be defined as a dramatic work in which the outward failure of the principal personage is compensated for by the dignity and greatness of his character.

In order to deal with all the medical cost demands and other challenges in the U.S., as we look to raise that revenue, the rich will have to pay slightly more. That's quite clear.

I'm very proud that the state of Vermont banned fracking. I hope communities all over California, and all over America do the same.

I'm the guy with the good attitude towards menstruation.

If you want to really know higher dimensions of life, there needs to be a constant sense of peacefulness and joyfulness within you

A couple's first task, it has always seemed to me, is to solve the problem of breakfast; if this can be worked out amicably, most other difficulties can too.

I don't even have children, it's just been an excuse to play jenga and hit softballs in my backyard with a box of laundry detergant wearing baby clothes.

These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.