When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.

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.

Life is too short for long-term grudges.

I feel lucky for my upbringing and tremendous adversity, which made me so successful, now I like to devote my life to improve lives of others, who are facing adversity every day.

Please let there be another life. I need a real taste of forever with you. This ... this isn't long enough.

It is always safe to assume that people are more subtle and less sensitive than they seem.

Every morning when I wake up, I am grateful and happy that I come to the film set. It is home.

I've always been attracted to classic patterns in architecture, music and drama.

The novel is a game or joke shared between author and reader.

And I sat there getting drunker and drunker and more in love and more in love.

If you're feeling pressure, then you shouldn't be here.

As long as you don't forgive, who and whatever it is will occupy a rent-free space in your mind.

To be a sports person... There is a never say die attitude you have to have to succeed. The first thing I say is "die..." If you beat me, I just give up.