It didn't matter that there were actually two lakes there, ... It didn't matter that he had only $300 in his pocket. He had the gall, or the zeal, to call it not a school, or a college, but a university. — Theodore Hesburgh Copy Share Image
My basic principle is that you don't make decisions because they are easy; you don't make them because they are cheap; you don't make… — Theodore Hesburgh Copy Share Image
There is no conflict between science and theology, except where there is bad science or bad theology. — Theodore Hesburgh Copy Share Image
My basic principle is that you don't make decisions because they are cheap; you make them because they're right. — Theodore Hesburgh Copy Share Image
Bill Walton, UH Volleyball coach, after his player kept looking at him on the bench every time the ball hit the floor...Next time you… — Theodore Hesburgh Copy Share Image
A decade after an average athlete graduates, everyone will have forgotten when and where he played. But every time he speaks, everyone will know… — Theodore Hesburgh Copy Share Image
Once He created the Big Bang... He could have envisioned it going in billions of directions as it evolved, including billions of life-forms and… — Theodore Hesburgh Copy Share Image
Anyone who refuses to speak out off campus does not deserve to be listened to on campus. — Theodore Hesburgh Copy Share Image
Faith is not an easy virtue; but, in the broad world of a person's total voyage through time to eternity, faith is not only… — Theodore Hesburgh Copy Share Image
The melting pot failed to function in one crucial area. Religions and nationalities, however different, generally learned to live together, even to grow together,… — Theodore Hesburgh Copy Share Image
The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet. — Theodore Hesburgh Copy Share Image
I can think of no better way of redeeming this tragic world today than love and laughter. Too many of the young have forgotten… — Theodore Hesburgh Copy Share Image
