There's no sense talking about priorities. Priorities reveal themselves. We're all transparent against the face of the clock.

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.

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.

I would like to invite everyone for the Third World War, but fight the war with love, not with the gun, to win the world peace. We all will be a winner.

To be human is to be broken and broken is its own kind of beautiful.

The Rudderless World is not shaped by vague metaphysical Forces. It is not God who kills the Children. Not Fate that butchers them or Destiny that feeds them to the Dogs. ... It´s us. Only us.

Perfect. Why was this so hard to find?”The other type of perfect is the type you never could have expected and then could never replicate.

Success is like a mirror: It reflects back to you exactly what you held up before it.

Life with a scientist who is often changing jobs and is frequently away at meetings and on lecture tours is not easy. Without a secure home base, I could not have made much progress.

Come along inside... We'll see if tea and buns can make the world a better place.

Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous?

My mind is my biggest asset. I expect to win every tournament I play.

Art degraded, Imagination denied.