In almost any industry, if you're passionate about doing a great job and making people that buy your product or service as happy as possible, it's really fulfilling.

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.

If a man realizes who he is, he will not react to the negative things surrounding him

Liz, you must be very polite with yourself when you are learning something new.

Seductive pull of the forest, an open canvas for trouble.

Courage is clearly a readiness to risk self-humiliation.

There are few virtues which the Poles do not possess and there are few errors they have ever avoided.

We didn't pass any constitutional amendments that affected the executive branch while I was governor.

Please, shun darkness, and like trees, always seek to grow toward the light.

The love that dare not speak its name has become the love that won't shut up.

But conversation, choose what theme we may, And chiefly when religion leads the way, Should flow, like waters after summer show'rs, Not as if raised by mere mechanic powers.