The value of beauty and inspiration is very much underrated, no question. But I want to be clear: I'm not trying to be anyone's savior. I'm just trying to think about the future and not be sad.

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 utility of perseverance in absurdity is more than I could ever discern. Edmund Burke

[H]ow can something cease to exist that has no solid existence in the first place?

Sakaki: "...Why can't we just talk it over...?"Tomo: "You can't talk to cats.

Anyone who truly walks with God, walks humbly. The closer we draw near to Him, the more we behold His majesty!

I looked at the Branson Mo. deal but it's all old people and their parents

Freedom is the total absence of concern about yourself.

There can be no public or private virtue unless the foundation of action is the practice of truth.

Im just lucky to have great parents. My sisters an actress. My brothers a musician. I found it hard growing up in such a... creatively driven family. I wanted to have this thing to create, myself.

[It] is indispensable that some provision should be made for defending the Community agst [against] the incapicity, negligence or perfidy of the chief Magistrate.

Life is like pouring water into a Coca- Cola bottle; if you're the least bit scared you can't do it