“We need to figure out how to have the things we love, and not destroy the world.”

I always like going South; somehow, it feels like going downhill.

It is a mistake to hire huge numbers of people to get a complicated job done.

The extension of life beyond Earth is the most important thing we can do as a species.

Most people can learn a lot more than they think they can. They sell themselves short without trying.

Give people their freedom back!

I hate writing about personal stuff. I don’t have a Facebook page. I don’t use my Twitter account. I am familiar with both, but I don’t use them.

The only reason I was able to accomplish things is the great people willing to work with me.

My mentality is that of a samurai. I would rather commit seppuku than fail.

I’ve actually not read any books on time management.

Persistence is very important. You should not give up unless you are forced to give up.

You want to have a future where you’re expecting things to be better, not one where you’re expecting things to be worse.

For my part, I will never give up, and I mean never.

When I was in college, I wanted to be involved in things that would change the world.

It’s OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.

I think life on Earth must be about more than just solving problems. It’s got to be something inspiring, even if it is vicarious.

Tesla is here to stay and keep fighting for the electric car revolution.

Some experiences destroy you.

But a kingdom that has once been destroyed can never come again into being; nor can the dead ever be brought back to life.

There is always one woman to save you from another and as that woman saves you she makes ready to destroy.

Trees, though they are cut and lopped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again.

What would a narrative of happiness be like? All that can be described is what prepares it, and then what destroys it.

It is better to destroy one’s own errors than those of others.

Sometimes people try to destroy you, precisely because they recognize your power – not because they don’t see it, but because they see it and they don’t want it to exist.

People who destroy your character because your character destroys their inner peace.