A university is not, primarily, a place in which to learn how to make a living; it is a place in which to learn how to be more fully a human being, how to draw upon one's resources, how to discipline the mind and expand the imagination; how to make some sense out of the big world we will shortly be thrown into.

Ignorance per se is not nearly as dangerous as ignorance of ignorance.

An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run.

When a baseball player makes an error, it goes into the record and is published. How many of us could stand this sort of daily scrutiny?

The generality of mankind is lazy. What distinguishes men of genuine achievement from the rest of us is not so much their intellectual powers and aptitudes as their curiosity, their energy, their fullest use of their potentialities. Nobody really knows how smart or talented he is until he finds the incentives to use himself to the fullest. God has given us more than we know what to do with.

People who think they're generous to a fault usually think that's their only fault.

Maturity begins when we're content to feel we're right about something without feeling the necessity to prove someone else wrong.