My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.

Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.

Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.

Americans have been remarkably devoted to the capacity for belief, to idealism. That's why we get into trouble all the time. We're always viewed as naive.

On a good day, I view the job [of president] as directing an orchestra. On the dark days, it is more like that of a clutch -- engaging the engine to effect forward motion, while taking greater friction.

Talking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods.

I think that the young people today feel a tremendous sense of responsibility to their brothers and sisters because of the sacrifices that most families make to send their children to college.