University President, Professors, Students and Friends of Rutgers University, Brothers and Sisters! I am honored and delighted to have the opportunity to give you this lecture. I want to take this opportunity to sincerely thank you for this opportunity to speak to you, and also to express my deep gratitude to you for awarding me an honorary doctorate in humanities.

Quite often, when I am awarded an honorary doctorate, I am expressing my thoughts on this matter. Today I would like to do the same. I usually say this: it's especially nice to get a PhD when you don't have to study and work hard to get it. [Laughter] ...