Years later, when I asked my father, I said 'Pop, why were you so much harder on me than my younger brothers?' he said, son, you plum wore me out.

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.

I think he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well-loved eyes.

I know no such disease of the soul, but ignorance.

There are many different forms of betrayal, but one hurts the most, Betraying Your Self.

Hope is the thing that is left to us, in a bad time.

She acts like summer and walks like rain.

My brother says that I was writing songs about fate while he was off playing soccer. Now I tell him he's 33 and being a professional while I'm playing soccer with my friends. Ha!

And me I'm in the bathroom crying out my eyelids because it's hard to be a man when you're scared, just like a little kid.

Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody.

It's easier for me if I'm just open and transparent to a point.

I'll rap as long as people want to hear it.