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

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.

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.

Life is too short for long-term grudges.

A dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it.

You could buy a company of people with your wealth, but would never succeed in purchasing their love.

"I saw her, in the fire, but now. I hear her in music, in the wind, in the dead stillness of the night," returned the haunted man.

The virtuous soul that is alone and without a master is like a long lone burning coal; it will grow colder rather than hotter.

Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.

Scripture is, at its heart, the great story that we sing in order not just to learn it with our heads but to become part of it through and through, the story that in turn becomes part of us.

I loved movies ever since I was a kid.

Putting the budget ahead of the policy is the wrong way to do it. It's too often the way it's done in Washington.

A kingdom man is the kind of man that when his feet hit the floor each morning the devil says, "Oh crap, he's up!"

I believed I was a salamander, and it seems I am nothing but an impediment.