To the people of Illinois let me say this. Business as usual IS OVER.

Capitalism is the greatest poverty-fighting machine in the history of mankind, and I'm proud of the role I've played in it.

A C.E.O.'s job is leadership, problem solving, and team building. I've done that my whole career.

Many of us have been touched by the magic of a great teacher. I know I have.

Great teaching requires incredible talent and dedication, strong intellectual ability and interpersonal skill, real discipline and empathy.

Success is all about persistence and doing the right thing for the long term.

Resentment is the act of stabbing yourself repeatedly in the heart with a knife, hoping the other person dies.

To think is to ignore the differences, to generalize, to abstract.

I just hitch up my girdle and let 'er fly.

I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me.

It's a question of not copying the masters, to look for something, good or bad, for oneself. To enter this liberated state of mind, one cannot copy the others.

It is a burden because I get asked about my father all the time. I just need to accept that he was a champion before me.

The essence of globalization is a subordination of human rights, of labor rights, consumer, environmental rights, democracy rights, to the imperatives of global trade and investment.

If everyone waited to do something good until they had purely unselfish motivations, no good would ever get done in the world. The point is to do it anyway.

What man art thou that, thus bescreened in night, So stumblest on my counsel? *Who are you? Why do you hide in the darkness and listen to my private thoughts?*

Be careful about wanting what others have. There is always a price. Perhaps God didn’t give it to you, because He knew you wouldn’t be able to pay it.