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The best augury of a man’s success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.

After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity.

I always wanted to have my own album released before I graduated from high school.

What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!

As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.

The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.

He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first.

Where there are large powers with little ambition… nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.

I don’t want to just go to the playoffs, I don’t want to go to the playoffs and win the first round, second round, and not win the whole thing because it’s bittersweet.

I would like to run for the mayor of the city of Chicago. That has always been an aspiration of mine even when I was in the House of Representatives.