Leadership is about moving people from where they are to where you hope they'll go.

I’m not the woman president of Harvard, I’m the president of Harvard.

If you don't pursue what you think will be most meaningful, you will regret it. Life is long. There is always time for Plan B. But don't begin with it.

Look to the past to help create the future. Look to science and to poetry. Combine innovation and interpretation. We need the best of both. And it is universities that best provide them.

The ability to recognize opportunities and move in new - and sometimes unexpected - directions will benefit you no matter your interests or aspirations.

The American Civil War produced carnage that has often been thought reserved for the combination of technological proficiency and inhumanity characteristic of a later time.

A leader has to keep saying the same things over and over again.

You can get into any business by leveraging joint ventures.

There are no permanent changes because change itself is permanent.

Jem spoke with enormous care; talking to Will about anything personal was like trying not to startle away a wild animal.

The basis of human rights is happy life. Everyone wants to lead a happy life for which we need to have a holistic approach.

Americans are xenophobic, they will believe their own people rather than the adversary, even a friendly enemy voice.

We read so that we can be moved by a new way of looking at things.

Life with a scientist who is often changing jobs and is frequently away at meetings and on lecture tours is not easy. Without a secure home base, I could not have made much progress.

I don't want to be ordinary. I'm willing to do the work. I'm willing to suffer the indignities of comedy because I want to be great. I don't want to just be good. I want to be great.

When you're just shagging girls, you can talk about it, but once it gets real, then you don't.

Let us honor if we can the vertical man, though we value none but the horizontal one