Some companies out there quote a start of production that is substantially in advance of when customers get their cars.

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.

Stress is a thought, a perception of fear, it will melt away if welet our thoughts change with courage.

Look at your heart-flower and smile.You will be able to solve your most pressing problems.

The absolute ruler may be a Nero, but he is sometimes a Titus or Marc Aurelius; the people is often Nero, but never Marc Aurelius.

People never know each other until they have eaten a certain amount of salt together.

I may be no better, but at least I am different.

I'm not leaving New York. And neither is anyone else. We're here. We are quintessential Americans - we're not only American, but New York-American.

I feel like being in a band, you get license to be a kid forever.

The future is not a scenario written, which we only have to act out; it is a work which we have to create.

A coxcomb is four-fifths affectation and one-fifth vanity.

Madam, you have bereft me of all words, Only my blood speaks to you in my veins.