If you're trying to create a company, it's like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.

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.

It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

There wasn't a colloquial phrase, or curse, that went something like, "May your day be full of angry dragons" or, "May every dragon you meet today be pissed off." But, there should have been.

In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to the story.

I don't want to make movies for kids, and I don't want to make movies for adults either.

I love leaving the house in a new outfit; I don't feel the pressure at all.

These books are my friends, my companions.

I demolish my bridges behind me - then there is no choice but forward.

For so long, I was controlled and manipulated by other people. Whatever people think of me, I'm finally doing what I want to do.

I get a handsome amount. I could definitely buy a car off one of my guest appearances. & I'm not talking about a Hyundai.

If you understand life...you MUST be misinformed!