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

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.

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.

Wonder feeds our best intelligence and is perhaps its source.

Never a good sign, he thought, when the crows showed up.

I never considered myself a songwriter, but now since I've been working with Nick Lowe, I am contributing to an extent. But I'm the guitarist and he's not, so we compliment each other in a way.

Where did Gabriel get a lily, In the month of March, When the green Is hardly seen On the early larch?

I never really studied business in school. I kind of wish I had, but how boring is that?

Now we have Republicans - to one degree or another - working as hard as the Democrats are to defeat Donald Trump.

I relax completely when I'm at rest. I don't think of numbers; I don't think of work.

We have met with the dharma. Many of us have met with teachers. We do have some idea of what to do and how to practice. And we should not be lazy.

If you are recording, you are recording. I don't believe there is such a thing as a demo or a temporary vocal.