When it comes to dreams, one may falter, but the only way to fail is to abandon them.

I'm a one-woman guy. I think that if you can find someone you want to spend the rest of your life with, you should marry them instantly, and try to stay married.

Nobodys perfect. And if you think they are, youre sadly mistaken.

You go through your 20s sort of like a chrysalis in many ways, stretching into your own skin and trying to bust out of a cocoon.

I don't hang out with movie stars, and you won't see me going to many Hollywood parties. I'm actually quite boring.

You know what I like to do on a Sunday morning? Clean my house. I really enjoy it; it's my ritual. I require tidiness, actually. I have to have everything spotless before I can relax.

You hurt the ones you love the most. Because it hurts you the most.

I always think there will be that time that people will find out that I'm crap at what I do.

You can work well with people that you may not get on well with in life because it's a parallel realism.

A lot of my success is because of what I look like. I know that.

Celebrity has lost its value - all you have to do is go on a reality TV show for six weeks and everybody knows your name.

You know how the tightrope guy at the circus wants everyone to believe his act is an art, but deep down you can see that he's really just hoping he makes it all the way across?

Peace can be found within, no matter the external circumstances.

Inner peace is a sacred blessing

My proceeds from the PayPal acquisition were $180 million. I put $100 million in SpaceX, $70m in Tesla, and $10m in Solar City. I had to borrow money for rent.

Form may be of more account than substance. A lens of ice will focus a solar beam to a blaze.

I began to realize that the big money must necessarily be in the big swing.

Most entrepreneurs fail because they are working IN their business rather than ON their business.

I'm nervous ahead of every gig. I feel like running away three seconds before I'm due on stage. But I'm all right as soon as I get the mic in my hand.

Americans' great and secret fear is that America may turn out to be a phenomenon rather than a civilization.

The most uninformed mind with a healthy body is happier than the wisest valetudinarian.