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

- Theodore Hesburgh

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 …

- Theodore Hesburgh

There is no academic virtue in playing mediocre football and no academic vice in winning a game that by all odds one should lose...There has indeed b…

- Theodore Hesburgh

It is easier to exemplify values than teach them.

- Theodore Hesburgh

A decade after an average athlete graduates, everyone will have forgotten when and where he played. But every time he speaks, everyone will know whet…

- Theodore Hesburgh

You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

- Theodore Hesburgh

There is no conflict between science and theology, except where there is bad science or bad theology.

- Theodore Hesburgh

The melting pot failed to function in one crucial area. Religions and nationalities, however different, generally learned to live together, even to g…

- Theodore Hesburgh

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

- Theodore Hesburgh