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

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.

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.

But it [crony capitalism] erodes our overall standard of living and stifles entrepreneurs by rewarding the politically favored rather than those who provide what consumers want.

How shall one who is so weak in his childhood become really strong when he grows older? We only change our fancies.

The biggest honor of my career was when I won R&B Artist of the Year back in the 1970s. I look at that as a major honor.

Perfectionism is boring and doesn't exist-to strive for it makes you uninteresting.

Touring and promoting and recording take a lot of time, it's just getting the right balance that's important.

There is nothing worse than bad drunk acting.

The eye... the point where a person's identity is concentrated.

I have a hard time really claiming my place as a songwriter or as doing anything of import really because I feel like I'm tooting my own horn in a way.

I've never been disappointed by politicians. I've never invested that much in them in the first place.

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

Delight and liberty, the simple creed of childhood.