There is no greater challenge than to have someone relying upon you; no greater satisfaction than to vindicate his expectation.

There is no greater challenge than to have someone relying upon you; no greater satisfaction than to vindicate his expectation.

Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of displeasure.

Perhaps the most fundamental value of a liberal education is that it makes life more interesting. It allows you to think things which do not occur to the less learned ... it makes it less likely that you will be bored with life.

If I take refuge in ambiguity, I assure you that it's quite conscious.

Maybe you are the "cool" generation. If coolness means a capacity to stay calm and use your head in the service of ends passionately believed in, then it has my admiration.

The presumption of innocence is not just a legal concept. In commonplace terms, it rests on that generosity of spirit which assumes the best, not the worst, of the stranger.