The quality of your life is a function of who you go through life with.

Mining asteroids will ultimately benefit humanity on and off the Earth in a multitude of ways.

One of my goals is to reinvent philanthropy.

A Masai warrior on a cellphone in the middle of Kenya has better mobile comm than President Reagan did 25 years ago.

NASA calls stuff nominal instead of phenomenal, like it really is. So I have given up that there is going to be a balance and NASA is going to do certain things and we are finally in a state of existence where small groups of individuals can do extraordinary things, funded by single people.

I believed that once we got to the Moon, there was no stopping us. But in fact, we did stop.

What opened up the American West was the fact that you owned the real estate. You owned the gold mines, the oil wells. The creation of these, back then, million dollar industries drove the railroads and eventually the airlines to provide this kind of transportation.