The path to truly new, never-been-done-before things always has failure along the way.

Failure isn't a problem. It's the fear of failure that's the limiting factor. You can't lose your nerve for the big failure, because it's the exact same nerve you need for the big success.

Since we took to the sky, we have wanted to fly faster and farther. And to do so, we've had to believe in impossible things and we've had to refuse to fear failure.

[We're making materials] so light that you can make a car that two people can lift, but so strong that it has the crash-worthiness of an SUV.

At Mach 20, we can fly from New York to Long Beach in 11 minutes and 20 seconds.

Authenticity is the most fundamental, but challenging attribute for leadership.

I just thought I was empty and now I'm being filled...and I just wanted to keep being filled.

If it took me showing some warmth to get warmth in return, I'd do it.

The vision is not to see things just as we have imagined them to be. The vision is the freedom to live deliberately every day and that is simply a choice.

I was taught over and over again that the accumulation of random mutations led to evolutionary change - led to new species. I believed it until I looked for evidence.

Trying to create a next world war, he found a promoter who nearly fell off the floor, he said I never engaged in this kind of thing before, but yes I think it can be very easily done.

I once asked [John] Lennon what he thought of what I do. He said 'it's great, but its just rock and roll with lipstick on'.

The whole point of art school is that you're going to be able to have nudes all day long and a teacher who is there to move you. It's great.

You cannot penetrate events with reportage.

I want to inspire people to become their higher selves, their best selves.