Theodore Hesburgh

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

All of us are experts at practicing virtue at a distance.

My basic principle is that you don't make decisions because they are cheap; you make them because they're right.

It is easier to exemplify values than teach them.

I can think of no better way of redeeming this tragic world today than love and laughter. Too many of the young have forgotten how to laugh, and too many of the elders have forgotten how to love. Would not our lives be lightened if only we could all learn to laugh more easily at ourselves and to love one another?

Anyone who refuses to speak out off campus does not deserve to be listened to on campus.