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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Things that look impossible suddenly seem a lot better, once you get God on board.

What we may think is funny or cute may end up being powerfully hurtful.

Any officer can get by on his sergeants. To be a sergeant you have to know your stuff. I'd rather be an outstanding sergeant than just another officer.

I think that Michael [Gove] felt things had changed.

For the material, at best, is only temporal, or temporary, while that which may be built from spiritual desire, spiritual purposes, is eternal.

I am young. I better show off what I have now.

What I most wanted even at that early age, was to capture and hold the truth, with the certainty and love that it brings.

The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive.

You never escape the traps you spin yourself. Only a greater power can break a power, and then you're trapped again. Trapped forever so you cannot die.

I guess we're oil and water. (Phoebe) I'd say we're more like gasoline and a blowtorch. (Dan)