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I think the whole system of education would change if I were in charge and had the ability to make changes. I don't think I would keep Princeton exactly being Princeton.

Princeton is quite integrated. Women are professors at Princeton. Women are students at Princeton. That began in the 1970s.

It was clear to me that if I could get through Princeton at the top of my class, I could do anything in the world.

I really enjoyed Princeton as a graduate student.

Princeton was really hard. I had learned how to write well at boarding school, and I knew if I majored in English and I just did the work, I could get B's.

I had been offered fellowships to enter as a graduate student at either Harvard or Princeton. But the Princeton fellowship was somewhat more generous, since I had not actually won the Putnam competition... Thus Princeton became the choice for my graduate study location.

I'd assumed that a deal was a deal when Princeton admitted me, but I was wrong. The price of getting in - to the university itself, and to the great world it promised to open up - was an endless dunning for nebulous services that weren't included in the initial quote.

As a senior at Princeton, I felt like the whole world was open to me. In our country, that's not a given. We aspire to be a place of equal opportunity, and yet where you're born determines your prospects.

Princeton is a sublime undergraduate university. It has a good architecture school.

For better or worse, the people who become leaders and decision makers in politics, law and business are going to come from schools like Princeton.