Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.

In order to have your voice be heard in Washington, you have to make some little contribution.

If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it’s not.

For me it was never about money, but solving problems for the future of humanity.

You have to be pretty driven to make it happen. Otherwise, you will just make yourself miserable.

The odds of me coming into the rocket business, not knowing anything about rockets, not having ever built anything, I mean, I would have to be insane if I thought the odds were in my favor.

Trying to read our DNA is like trying to understand software code - with only 90% of the code riddled with errors. It's very difficult in that case to understand and predict what that software code is going to do.