Great cultural changes begin in affectation and end in routine.

Highly-adaptive, informal networks move diagonally and eliptically, skipping entire functions to get things done.

History, like a vast river, propels logs, vegetation, rafts, and debris; it is full of live and dead things, some destined for resurrection; it mingles many waters and holds in solution invisible substances stolen from distant soils.

Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about the past are a form of injustice.

In a large university, there are as many deans and executive heads as there are schools and departments. Their relations to one another are intricate and periodic; in fact, "galaxy" is too loose a term: it is a planetarium of deans with the President of the University as a central sun. One can see eclipses, inner systems, and oppositions.

The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.

The truth is, when all is said and done, one does not teach a subject, one teaches a student how to learn it.