Fear of failure is a ticket to mediocrity. If you’re not failing from time to time, you’re not pushing yourself. And if you’re not pushing yourself, you’re coasting.

Making resolutions is a cleansing ritual of self-assessment and repentance that demands personal honesty and, ultimately, reinforces humility. Breaking them is part of the cycle.

There's no sense talking about priorities. Priorities reveal themselves. We're all transparent against the face of the clock.

Don't waste your breath proclaiming what's really important to you. How you spend your time says it all.

This sense of the safe-deposit box as a totem of responsible security inspired me to rent a box myself shortly after the birth of our first child….

You can't buy time or save it, common idioms notwithstanding. You can only spend it.

I think it's weird that people think someone who's not a politician could be the mayor of Chicago.

Empathy is the greatest virtue. From it, all virtues flow. Without it, all virtues are an act.

We earth men have a talent for ruining big, beautiful things.” – The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury (1950)

People lie and scam because you are too stupid to understand it.

All weddings, except those with shotguns in evidence, are wonderful.

The critics don't interest me because they're concerned with what's past and done, while I'm concerned with what comes next.

His voice was the most obnoxious squeak I ever was tormented with.

They wouldn't tell Scipio how much of the counterfeit cash was left since, as Riccio put it, 'You're a detective now, after all.

NAFTA represents the single most creative step towards a New World Order.

They [Republican voters] believe in a foreign policy that puts America first: Give me a break. And so a lot of our drift within our party has gotten away from that.

We need to build up society in the light of the Beatitudes, walking towards the Kingdom with the least among us.

Already the scent of victory is in the air.