“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.”

My wife and I work out together almost every day. It’s just a great way to spend time together. We’re going to run a marathon together later this year, and that’s one more goal that we’ll accomplish as husband and wife.

Nobody would be left to round out the workforce and execute the business plan.

And within the world that you’ve created, the physics of that world have to remain constant; they can’t be amorphous and changing.

Because of the fact that we’ve been through so much, we’re going to appreciate every step of being parents. I think we’re going to savor it and cherish it and we’re going to be the best parents we can be.

A lot of entrepreneurs let ego get in the way. You’ve got to be the conductor. You can’t play all the instruments yourself. You have to get others to work together.

It is up to us not to bury that potential we have.

It’s more and more difficult to get through to your audience with all of the clutter. This is a great way for Ace to get [its] message out.

When you lose your hair, it has an impact on confidence and your overall self-esteem whether it affects your career or your love life.

I had a very good job in corporate America, but I quickly knew that was not how I was wired.

I’d wear flip-flops and jeans. I guess that’s not cool.

This was our last stop. This was it. We had those two embryos that we had banked prior to learning about the breast cancer, and with the medicine she was on, this was our last effort. The prayers were answered.

To the new ‘Apprentice’ candidates I would say to follow your gut instincts, be yourself and get ready to work hard for the next few months. Oh, and try to have some fun!

The American Dream is still alive out there, and hard work will get you there. You don’t necessarily need to have an Ivy League education or to have millions of dollars startup money. It can be done with an idea, hard work and determination.

I was into real estate. I was always an entrepreneur.

It seems that most the world is driven by the eye, right? They design cities to look great but they always sound horrible …

Love of money is the mother-city (metropolis) of all evils.

Some of the best auditions I’ve ever had have been when my agent called and said, ‘They want you 20 minutes ago, in an office in Century City, to see you for something.’

I myself am consummately middle class. We grew up in upper-middle-class suburbs in Oklahoma City, and thats very much the same ethos as what Richard Yates and John Cheever wrote about.

Agriculture is the greatest and fundamentally the most important of our industries. The cities are but the branches of the tree of national life, the roots of which go deeply into the land. We all flourish or decline with the farmer.

The neighborhood stores are an important part of a city child’s life.

Three thousand jurisdictions across the U.S. are estimated to have had gang activity in 2001. In 2002, 32% of cities with a population of 25 to 50 thousand reported a gang-related homicide.

I won the city scoring championship as a senior.