Yale's greatness carries an urgent need to guard against the fall of excellence into exclusivity, of refinement into preciousness, of elegance into class and convention.

Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic ideals of openness, of social justice and of equal opportunity.

To take the measure of oneself by reference to one's colleagues leads to envy or complacency rather than constructive self-examination.

It has been well said that a hungry man is more interested in four sandwiches than four freedoms.

I guess it wouldn't discourage a real mob for very long, but it packs all the authority you can put in a desk drawer.

To take the measure of oneself by reference to one's colleagues leads to envy or complacency rather than constructive self-examination.