“I believe the way I describe the problems in Chicago is that it's a metropolitan area. I've said that everywhere. The uneducated child is not just my problem, it's the state's problem. It's also the federal government's problem.”
“There are two kinds of talent, man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God-given talent, you just touch it up once in a while.”
| James Truslow Adams, Historian (1878) |
| Frank Carlucci, Politician (1930) |
| Jean Claude Van Damme, Actor (1960) |
| Zac Efron, Actor (1987) |
| Helen Hunt Jackson, Writer (1831) |
| Charles Babbage, Mathematician (1871) |
| Thomas A. Edison, Inventor (1931) |
| Jose Ortega Y Gasset, Philosopher (1955) |
| Walt Kelly, Cartoonist (1973) |