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

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.

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

As for your failures - stop calling them failures. Refer to them as "experiences". That's all they really are - just experiences.

Imagination is a concentrated extract of all the forces of life.

If you stay in your heart you will always be inspired and if you are inspired you will always be enthusiastic. There is nothing more contagious on this planet as enthusiasm.

Practice, work hard and give it everything you've got.

I will do just as you wish,' said no cat ever.

I'm actually a very quiet person off the golf course. I talk 150 miles per hour when I'm at the course, but when in private I very seldom ever open my mouth.

Truth and reason are common to everyone, and are no more his who spake them first than his who speaks them after.

Reasoning with a drunkard is like Going under water with a torch to seek for a drowning man.

15 Step is about how if you have mental illness and try to dance you look very funny. Whenever you see me dancing on stage, I'm imitating the mentally ill.