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.

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.

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.

I won't say there aren't any Harvard graduates who have never asserted a superior attitude. But they have done so to our great embarrassment and in no way represent the Harvard I know.

I remember being a teenager and being really impressed by "let's sit around and b*tch" people, and I have so little time for those people nowadays.

In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina.

When they teach [doctors] how to suture, they also teach them how to stitch their self-worth to being all-powerful.

You've got to clock the hours and pay your dues. Then eventually, people will come to you. You have to be patient and appreciative.

Adventurer: he that goes to meet whatever may come. Well, that is what we all do in the world one way or another.

A mechanical encounter or other energy-exchange may cause tissue damage.

I wanna go play my music in a club.

Printing money is merely taxation in another form. Rather than robbing citizens of their money, government robs their money of its purchasing power.

I regard morality and ideology as the chief cause of human misery.

Then he smiles as if he'd be happy to lie there and gaze at me forever.