You should be innovating so fast that you're invalidating your prior patents.

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.

Anything in life that we don't accept will simply make trouble for us until we make peace with it.

There was a nuisance in the service known as the army correspondent.

I'll paint you moments of gold, I'll spin you Valentine evenings.

Senate Democrats blocked President Obama's trade bill yesterday because they're worried it could hurt jobs. It's not an issue for Republicans, since they've all found work as presidential candidates.

A healthy state encourages many voices - and lots of listening

So many teen films are overproduced and people are going to burnout on the subject.

Learning to earn a living is only half the job. The other half is to make life worthwhile and meaningful.

The payment for sins can be delayed. But they cant be avoided.

I am attracted to myths.

I guess there seems to be clubs opening up again, which is strange.