People will buy the car just because it's a great car. We want them to think it's excellent value for money and then, oh yeah, it happens to be electric.

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.

I believe that just because something didn’t go the way you planned it once, it’s no reason not to try again.

Faraway a leopard barked that high, dissatisfied deep roar it cuts off so sharply, as if its annoyance is too great to express, can only be appeased.

If you just set people in motion they'll heal themselves.

Time is our present breath.

I don't think you should meet the people you most admire. I don't want reality to interfere with my image.

Every age, Through being beheld too close, is ill-discerned By those who have not lived past it.

if I fail as Jamie Foxx, I'll just change my name and come back as something else.

If I live to be 90, and I'm planning to, I'll always love performing for a live audience.

The basis of democracy is tolerance to criticism. If you can't face criticism, if you can't accept it, then you cannot guard democracy, you are not eligible for it.

In Greek, we do not use just one word for love. We have many words that are specific to each type of love.