If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.

My mind is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives.

As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.

I've been accused of vulgarity. I say that's bullshit.

Hope for the Best. Expect the worst. Life is a play. We're unrehearsed.

Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.

If presidents can't do it to their wives, they do it to their country.

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.

Humor is just another defense against the universe.

I don't know what to say so I'll just say what's in my heart...badoom, badoom, badoom.

My favorite expression is: When you go up to the bell, ring it ? or don't go up to the bell.

I determine to render more and better service, each day, than I am being paid to render. Those that reach the top are the ones who are not content with doing only what is required of them.

Emotionally intelligent people think before they speak and exercise discretion.

There's no sense that you're there forever. No parent is there forever.

Time eateth all things, could old poets say, The times are chang'd, our times drink all away.

I started SpaceX with the expectation of failure.

Right now, I am a football player and I will sacrifice whatever is necessary to be the best.

If I’d known you were such a lush, I’d have given you the cheap stuff. Going to go out with a bang, are you?

Art is not boosterism, it's not propaganda, and it's not spin, but that's not something that art does, and nor has it historically ever done it.

Personal mastery teaches us to choose. Choosing is a courageous act: picking the results and actions which you will make into your destiny.

I'm a terrible trumpet player...