Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.

If a family is an expression of continuity through biology, a city is an expression of continuity through will amd imagination? through mental choices making artifice, not through physical reproduction.

The university is our culture's assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.

It is not enough to offer a smorgasbord of courses. We must insure that students are not just eating at one end of the table.

Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else. Winning is important to any man's or woman's sense of satisfaction and well-being. Winning is not everything; but it is something powerful, indeed beautiful, in itself, something as necessary to the strong spirit as striving is necessary to the healthy character.

A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.

This is not the first time in my life where you know going into a job that you're going to hear in stereo what was wrong with what you did.