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.

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

Even the least of our activities ought to have some end in view.

The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.

When you do a voice in an animated film, you don't see the finished product at all. You're not animating. You're not doing the voice on the finished product. You're doing the voice long before.

The good thing is, we have household formation in this country. We have a country where I don't know whether it's a million households a year or more, but good form.

The solution to our water problems is more rain.

I think it was a natural step to start recording my own music.

When you see the right thing to do, you'd better do it.

Charisma gets the attention of man and character gets the attention of God.

To hope is to send darkest night into exile.

It's always great to have another chance at something.