Take your time to really learn and study the fundamentals of your pursuit, so that one day, your fully developed skill set will allow you to grow into a leader.

I really love research. It's one of the things I love most about my job. I feel like it's me in the lab cooking up the character.

I'd hate to interrupt this witch hunt with a substantive conversation." I glance over to the corner of the room, where Carolyn Brock winces, a rare break in her implacable expression.

If you're a serious-minded leader, you will read.

There was no better way to understand life than to live it—if not through your own life, then through another's. There was once a man who owned a field. Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant. Not to read was to turn your back on the wisest minds.

To know. Not to know about.

The Information Highway intrigues me because I have always been a newshound; I have always been curious about why people believe what they believe.

Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.

The surest way to stop growing is to stop reading.

To be wise is to be eternally curious.

The top experts in the world are ardent students. The day you stop learning, you're definitely not an expert.

Teaching, therefore, asks first of all the creation of a space where students and teachers can enter into a fearless communication with each other and allow their respective life experiences to be their primary and most valuable source of growth and maturation. It asks for a mutual trust in which those who teach and those who want to learn can become present to each other, not as opponents, but as those who share in the same struggle and search for the same truth.