Tesla is becoming a real car company.

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.

The inner being is not only the meditative quality within, the inner silence and emptiness, it is the door to the whole.

All animals except man know that the principle business of life is to enjoy it.

I love gentle, gorgeous classical music such as Mozart.

Passion will move men beyond themselves, beyond their shortcomings, beyond their failures.

It's quite nice to have a bit more color on the lips during wintertime. And it's festive, isn't it?

Brothers don't necessarily have to say anything to each other - they can sit in a room and be together and just be completely comfortable with each other.

The most important thing is just to be recognised as a legend, like the people call me. To have that title attached to your name, you've got to be a bad man. It's an honour to have that role.

Celebration is my attitude, unconditional to what life brings.

In real meditation you forget the body. You may be cut to pieces and not feel it at all. You feel such pleasure in it. You become so light. This perfect rest we will get in meditation.

Nobody, and I mean nobody, ever started a revolution playing by the rules