Many things are improbable, only a few are impossible.

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.

Trust Begins In TRUth, even if the Truth is about how you broke my trust.

But there are some born to do penance by nature. Maybe they lift the load for some of us who take it quite comfortably that we're humankind, and not angels.

I went on a long trip through South America with Prince Charles where I was the only journalist there - a couple of photographers but no other writers.

Count Basie was college, but Duke Ellington was graduate school.

I'm a trained actress and I can do it, but I think that you have to prove yourself

One of my main techniques for acting is I try to know almost nothing beyond the words that I have to say, because that's my zone of control.

Scientists are slowly waking up to an inconvenient truth - the universe looks suspiciously like a fix. The issue concerns the very laws of nature themselves.

Things just happen, it will pass, it's your learning process.

I can't drink. I have too much to lose. I can't lose my job over something I can stop.

Some intentionally injure others through mocking, sarcasm with no intent to help. Others are trying to help.