Probably the first time I was a boss was when I was associate dean of the graduate school at the University of Southern California. I was in my early 30s.

When ownership is local and national, and various stakeholders work together, program innovations have a greater chance to take root and survive.

I came to understand the value of education, not just to enable me to make a good living, but to enable me to make a worthwhile life.

There's nothing worse than a leader who lacks ambition.

Fear of failure is the fuel of achievement. If you weren't afraid to fail, you probably wouldn't be highly motivated to work at the level that most of us have to work at to do well.

The humanities don't belong to some elitist group... knowledge as a whole should be embraced.

the most important thing one can do for children is not accept the limitations they are so willing to impose on themselves.

Strategies for research and policy development must simultaneously address people's needs, the capacity of programs to provide good quality of care, and the range of technological options available.

There is strong mentoring of women in the academy. Corporations appear more willing to resist affirmative action to advance women, and boards and shareholders are more tolerant of this approach.

A longer time perspective is needed because we face a daunting task both in an intellectual and practical sense.

If I can give a very substantial injection of humanistic thinking into corporations, boy, that would change things a lot.

If men were angels, no government would be necessary.

To change you must want to change, you must be responsible for the change, and then take action to make the change. It is your race to run so you need to choose your road wisely.

If you want breakfast in bed, you have to concider sleeping in the kitchen>

It is impossible to keep a straight face in the presence of one or more kittens.

There are a lot of good things about string theory, and it's great that some people want to work on it.

I remember having to read 'The Old Man and the Sea,' and I didn't want to read it; I didn't want to like Ernest Hemingway. I was being a stubborn teenager.

There is nothing like a Bach fugue to remove me from a discordant moment... only Bach hold up fresh and strong after repeated playing. I can always return to Bach when the other records weary me.

if we don't begin by imagining the perfect society, how shall we create one?

The gods give that man some profit to whom they are propitious. [Lat., Cui homini dii propitii sunt aliquid objiciunt lucri.]

If you're in the minor leagues, you want to get to the majors.