Starting and growing a business is as much about the innovation, drive and determination of the people who do it as it is about the product they sell.

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.

As much as he liked the idea of having best friends with whom he could share anything. it was like all he knew how to be was alone, apart.

I make a lot of money and I'm worth every cent.

I am absolutely convinced that my life was redeemed by poetry.

I'm an obvious example of how everyone is spiraling out of control on the show and just trying to live life the best they can without destroying themselves.

There's an opera out on the turnpike, there's a ballet being fought out in the alley.

We've had fiction from the time of cave drawings. I think fiction, storytelling, and narrative in general will always exist in some form.

Frank [Zappa] was not a big fan of having lyrics, but sometimes he had things to say that lent themselves to lyrics.

Long-term unemployment can make any worker progressively less employable, even after the economy strengthens.

Most people are not for or against anything; the first object of getting people together is to make them respond somehow, to overcome inertia.