At Mach 20, we can fly from New York to Long Beach in 11 minutes and 20 seconds.

Failure isn't a problem. It's the fear of failure that's the limiting factor. You can't lose your nerve for the big failure, because it's the exact same nerve you need for the big success.

The path to truly new, never-been-done-before things always has failure along the way.

Since we took to the sky, we have wanted to fly faster and farther. And to do so, we've had to believe in impossible things and we've had to refuse to fear failure.

[We're making materials] so light that you can make a car that two people can lift, but so strong that it has the crash-worthiness of an SUV.

Nothing about you, my dear, has ever been lost on me.

Believe it or not, you and your enemies want many of the same things and share values.

We do not wish ardently for what we desire only through reason.

In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were, to the century.

Technology has become as ubiquitous as the air we breathe, so we are no longer conscious of its presence.

Read these 3 books - Crossing the Chasm, Innovators Dilemma and Behind the Cloud.

When I can't immediately define the character, and there's an element of mystery to it and still a lot to be explored, that's when I say yes.

When I am tempted to complain about God's lack of presence, I remind myself that God has much more reason to complain about my lack of presence.

I have these big piano-playing hands. I feel like I should be picking potatoes.

I'm one of the few people that I know that sings better than they did 20 years ago.