In order for us to have a future that's exciting and inspiring, it has to be one where we're a space-bearing civilization.

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.

Meditation is the art of silencing the mind so that you may hear the inklings of the Soul.

Belief in a false reality about another person first manifests in the creators mind by making everything look like proof, then manifests in other people to become reality. Unless noticed.

We cannot know. But sometimes there is kindness, and sometimes there is love.

What a mad world is a world in which nоbody deserves to be loved.

The business of feeding people is the most amazing business in the world.

If two people are in love they can sleep on the blade of a knife.

Disappointment is an endless wellspring of comedy inspiration.

Oh, I was working occasionally in and out of New York.

Increasingly, people have very little tolerance for anything that smacks of propaganda.

Sin is not taken out of man, as Eve was out of Adam, by putting him to sleep.