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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.

Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.

My attitude is never to be satisfied, never enough, never.

You retire when you are sick and when you can’t do it any more or when the public retires you. That’s the most painful, because that’s the one that leaves you wanting to accomplish more.

There’s high, and there’s high, and to get really high – I mean so high that you can walk on the water, that high-that’s where I’m going.

The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little.