I try to hire people who will challenge and have the humility to be challenged - people who have basically good values.

Embrace change. Envision what could be, challenge the status quo, and drive creative destruction.

I believe my business and non-profit investments are much more beneficial to societal well-being than sending more money to Washington.

A truly free society is based on a vision of respect for people and what they value.

Success is one of the worst enemies of success, because success tends to breed complacency and lack of humility.

To do meaningful work is to contribute - to create value in society.

We must measure what leads to results, not simply what is easy to measure.

When everyone gets something for nothing, soon no one will have anything, because no one will be producing anything.

The only way you improve is to try new things.

If you never failed, then you're probably not doing very much.

A classical liberal is someone who wants a society that maximizes peace, civility, tolerance, and well-being for everyone. One that opens opportunities for everyone to advance themselves.

You can't know how much a mother loves.

The tendency of the human mind is to see the world with a ‘dualistic’ view that describes everything through comparisons: good and bad, pain and happiness, beauty and ugliness, rich and poor.

My mom said once that education was a privilege not afforded to everyone, but she was wrong--it wasn't a privilege. It was our right. We had the right to a future.

Running hills breaks up your rhythm and forces your muscles to adapt to new stresses. The result? You become stronger.

As they used to say 'What if they gave a war and nobody came?' How worthwhile if they declared a day of peace and everybody came.

I want to see your tailpipe fading off into the sunset." Good luck, I thought. My tailpipe was somewhere on Route 1, along with my muffler.

Power is as power does.

I'm a man more dined against than dining.

The hardest thing I have done is given up power.

Everything was quiet, a strange sort of quiet that felt like an unfinished sentence.