I'm involved in issues, and issues are about grass-roots politics.

I grew up in a household that revered building businesses. It wasn't thinking about leadership; it was more about building something. To build something, you ultimately have to lead.

Whatever you build, youre building for the family - not with an eye toward getting away, but with an eye toward adding to the family pie.

In my day job, I worry non-stop about making wise investments for long-term gains.

Women get 77 cents on the dollar that men get for the same job.

I wanted to build businesses from the time I was little.

ChicagoNEXT is focused on making Chicago the best possible place for technology entrepreneurs.

Early childhood education is an urgent educational, economic and moral imperative. Without it, we face a long-term national economic security crisis.

Faith gives you an inner strength and a sense of balance and perspective in life.

There were no absolutes in fiction, no certain way to deliver what was needed. So it was no surprise most technical writers considered novel-writing a gateway to madness.

Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

In the same way as the tree bears the same fruit year after year, but each time new fruit, all lastingly valuable ideas in thinking must always be reborn.

Dishonesty of any kind will create a blemish.

Forgiveness has its comforts, but it can never give you back what you've lost.

People that are interested in me, I like to be interested in them.

And in fact, I think the more we start to worship perfection the more soul leaks out of art.

I may find Saddam Hussein's regime abhorrent - any normal person would - but the survival of it is in his hands.

I love Costas. He's knows too much, but he's a good guy.