Humans need to be a multiplanet species.

Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

People should pursue what they're passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.

I think it is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary.

I'm extremely confident that solar will be at least a plurality of power, and most likely a majority... in less than 20 years.

Constantly seek criticism. A well thought out critique of what you're doing is as valuable as gold

Optimism, pessimism, f**k that; we're going to make it happen. As God is my bloody witness, I'm hell-bent on making it work.

I think that's the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.

Mars is the only place in the solar system where it's possible for life to become multi-planetarian.

My mentality is that of a samurai. I would rather commit seppuku than fail.

God will restore all that you have lost in your life

The older I get the more I enjoy my childhood…! ~James A. Murphy

Suffering does not befall him who is without attachment to names and forms.

Continue to learn with humility, not hubris. Hubris is boring.

Quiet is might. Solitude is strength. Introversion is power.

It's a question of not copying the masters, to look for something, good or bad, for oneself. To enter this liberated state of mind, one cannot copy the others.

The unsaid part is the best of every discourse.

God is the Truth. The Bible is the truth about the Truth. Theology is the truth about the truth about the Truth.

Unlike Ray Porter, his love is fearless and without reservation.