You can make a good living while serving a greater good.

First, you have to be visible in the community. You have to get out there and connect with people. It's not called net-sitting or net-eating. It's called networking. You have to work at it.

Success is the uncommon application of common knowledge

Networking is not about hunting. It is about farming. It's about cultivating relationships. Don't engage in 'premature solicitation'. You'll be a better networker if you remember that.

Networking is more about farming than it is about hunting.

I believe that every human has a finite amount of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.

Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it runs by.

There is endless merit in a man's knowing when to have done.

I don't care if you're black, white, short, tall, skinny, rich or poor. If you respect me I'll respect you

My own self-consciousness cries out to me coldly: how does one love zero?

Chicago is seriously my favorite city in the country. People have roots here, which is nice. When you go to Los Angeles, no one is actually from Los Angeles.

You can't know who you are, as a nation or a people, unless you know where you've been.

Our tendency is to be strong, self-sufficient, and dependent on our own willpower, but rather than try harder, we should reach out to the God who is all-powerful.

What's your name?" "Becky Thatcher. What's yours? Oh, I know. It's Thomas Sawyer." "That's the name they lick me by. I'm Tom when I'm good. You call me Tom, will you?" "Yes

It's too sad to live eating theories. The best thing is to transmute wisdom into love.