Technology is nothing. What’s important is that you have a faith in people, that they’re basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they’ll do wonderful things with them.

God wants to use you to make other people happy! And the happier you make others, the happier you will be because you reap what you sow.

If we help an educated man’s daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? – not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?

Everything is generated through your own will power.

People in tough times – it doesn’t mean they don’t have a great attitude.

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can’t ride you unless your back is bent.

The sexiest thing that a woman can do, wear, and say all fall under one word to me: subtlety. To be subtle in the things that she does and the things she says and the things she wears – I appreciate the details.

Hope is favorable and confident expectation; it’s an expectant attitude that something good is going to happen and things will work out, no matter what situation we’re facing.

When one’s expectations are reduced to zero, one really appreciates everything one does have.

Once you get into space, you can really unleash a lot of creativity, but the launch itself? I have been through all of the creative ways, and believe me, chemical rockets are the best.

Over the holidays, and even during filming, I realized that I actually like my body, even if it’s not perfect according to the book. I just feel sexy. For the first time, I don’t want to get rid of the curves. I just want to tone it up. My body is comfortable, and it’s not unhealthy, so I’m going to rock with it.

Feminism… I think the simplest explanation, and one that captures the idea, is a song that Marlo Thomas sang, ‚Free to be You and Me.‘

In the history of medicine, it is not always the great scientist or the learned doctor who goes forward to discover new fields, new avenues, new ideas.

The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

I’m never going to go to Mars, but I’ve helped inspire, thank goodness, the people who built the rockets and sent our photographic equipment off to Mars.

I’ve never responded well to entrenched negative thinking.

An idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.

I never read one hateful thing said about me by some 12 year old. So I got to live an actual life. And I’ve kept that mentality. Just because there’s a hurricane going on around you doesn’t mean you have to open the window and look at it.

The X is an amazing car, but we kind of got carried away with the art and technology. Obviously, you want great art. You want great technology. But we did get a little distracted from our mission, which was to advance the cause of electric vehicles. And it probably delayed us a little bit with the Model 3 as well.

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.

I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves, and I watch my daughters – two beautiful, intelligent black young women – playing with their dogs on the White House lawn. And because of Hillary Clinton, my daughters, and all our sons and daughters, now take for granted that a woman can be president of the United States.

We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.

I don’t want to say anything negative about anybody or anything or anybody’s political beliefs. I’ve never done that. I’ve never tried to get involved in those things.

But innovation comes from people meeting up in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 at night with a new idea, or because they realized something that shoots holes in how we’ve been thinking about a problem.

An iPod, a phone, an internet mobile communicator… these are NOT three separate devices! And we are calling it iPhone! Today Apple is going to reinvent the phone. And here it is.

I’m trying to construct a world that maximises the probability that SpaceX continues its mission without me.

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

Life doesn’t require that we be the best, only that we try our best.

Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

I am not young but I feel young. The day I feel old, I will go to bed and stay there. J’aime la vie! I feel that to live is a wonderful thing.

To me, a leader is someone who holds her- or himself accountable for finding potential in people and processes. And so what I think is really important is sustainability.

Whenever things go a bit sour in a job I’m doing, I always tell myself, ‚You can do better than this.‘

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again – as I always am when I write.

We have to wake up. We have to refuse to be a clone.

The Internet is a toilet. It is.

We must ensure that technology is accessible, affordable, and adds value.

Every summer’s mine.

Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.

Once we start to act, hope is everywhere. So instead of looking for hope, look for action. Then, and only then, hope will come.

Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.

Do the best you can, and don’t take life too serious.

Right now, when we’re hearing so much disturbing and hateful rhetoric, it is so important to remember that our diversity has been – and will always be – our greatest source of strength and pride here in the United States.

If you grew up, and you never had a computer, and you’ve never used the Internet, and someone asked you if you wanted to buy a data plan, your response would be ‚What’s a data plan, and why would I want to use this?‘

I’m not no Internet person.

Most people have no idea what something would sound like if it wasn’t an MP3.

I don’t want to hear the word ‚can’t.‘

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

There is little success where there is little laughter.

A black person grows up in this country – and in many places – knowing that racism will be as familiar as salt to the tongue. Also, it can be as dangerous as too much salt. I think that you must struggle for betterment for yourself and for everyone.

What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing. You see, it used to be that if you wanted to make a record of a song, you needed a studio and a producer. Now, you need a laptop.

No sanction can stand against ignited minds.

The biggest mistake we made as a company was betting too much on HTML5.

Fear is real, but so is love.

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.

A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with – a man is what he makes of himself.