I wouldn't say I have a lack of fear. In fact, I'd like my fear emotion to be less because it's very distracting and fries my nervous system.

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.

Maybe not today, Maybe not tomorrow. But somewhere down the line, there has to be a light.

I liked the fact that I could be who I wanted to be without my sister's voice reminding me of who I had been.

We need Wisdom to seek for the Kindom and we need the Kingdom to have the Freedom to posess all other things!

Sometimes I think I don't have much choice in the matter. It's just what happens, and I'm following my instincts the whole time.

Daffy-down-dilly came up in the cold, Through the brown mould Although the March breeze blew keen on her face, Although the white snow lay in many a place.

Years, following years, steal something every day; At last they steal us from ourselves away.

I've learned a ton since 2004.

Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender.

There's pressure, but that's true no matter who you are or what you do.

Many great writers have been extraordinarily awkward in daily exchange, but the greatest give the impression that their style was nursed by the closest attention to colloquial speech.