Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.

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.

If education is the key, then the teacher is the hand that holds the key! How can the key alone open a door? We must always care for teachers!

I thought it was love. No, it wasn't. It was marriage

Fame clearly breeds a false sense of security.

Go with your gut instincts even if it is contrarian to what the "experts" suggest.

If the national coach lets decisions be made from outside, he's lost the team.

We celebrate our intelligence, possessions, looks, talent, and achievements. Heaven celebrates how we used all of it.

I don't mind being goofy and silly. I love to make people laugh and I'm not self-conscious.

Before I was a mom I used to think that parents who worried about their kids watching MTV were just clueless. Now that I'm a mom, I see what the fuss was all about!

Because He moves against faults, God is said to be angered, although He is moved by no disturbance of equanimity.

Be good at something. It makes you valuable. Have something to bring to the table, because that will make you more welcome.