Research must continue to be the centerpiece of intellectual life, and our commitment to research must grow, because our problems are growing.

As I watched my grandfather work with people who were impoverished, I began to understand that to be truly human, one must serve.

Music gives us a language that cuts across the disciplines, helps us to see connections and brings a more coherent meaning to our world.

To push for excellence today without continuing to push for access for less privileged students is to undermine the crucial but incomplete gains that have been made. Equity and excellence cannot be divided.

An incompetent teacher is even worse than an incompetent surgeon because a surgeon can only cut up one person at a time.

Based upon the pictures, I concluded that about 60 percent of all college classes in the United States are held outside, underneath a tree, usually by a gently flowing stream.

Literature is an inquiry into the deepest yearnings of the human spirit.