A decade after an average athlete graduates, everyone will have forgotten when and where he played. But every time he speaks, everyone will know whether he was educated. Theodore Hesburgh More Quotes by Theodore Hesburgh More Quotes From Theodore Hesburgh I go back to an old Latin motto, opus justitiae pax: Peace is the work of justice, we've known 20 percent of the people in the world have 80 percent of the goodies, which means the other 80 percent have to scrape by on 20 percent. Theodore Hesburgh us I'm sure I get credit for a lot of things that I'm part of but not necessarily the whole of, we began a great university and those who followed continued the motion forward. Theodore Hesburgh us I've said Mass in airplanes at 50,000 feet. I've said Mass in the South Pole. I've said Mass in jungles all over the world. I've said Mass in African huts. I've said Mass in cathedrals. Wherever I am, I've been able to do it for over 60 years every day and only miss a couple of times in all those years. Theodore Hesburgh us