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.

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.

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.

Regardless of how black the page, he had always managed to turn it and move on to a new chapter in his life.

No practice exists in isolation.

Sustainable Life = Victory

Sometimes you have to go somewhere else to appreciate what we have here.

The Boomers have modeled a set of bad habits, and one grand gesture is not going to unwind all those bad habits.

In each of us there is a little of all of us.

You are one of the forces of nature.

Die every day. Be reborn again every day.

I feel this is a family here, so kinda regardless of whatever happens in your life, you always can come home to the Grand Ole Opry, thank God.

Bruce [Dern] and I are in this car just for days and days, just talking about life and I could listen to his stories forever.