Creating abundance [is] not about creating a life of luxury for everybody on this planet; it's about creating a life of possibility.

We are not going to stop here on planet Earth. We're going to move out to other planetary bodies.

The thing about frontiers, it allows the individuals who are best, whether they're men or women or minorities or whatever, to step to the top. So in traditional societies, old world societies, in the United Kingdom if you would; if you were born into the right stratus, the right class, you had the ability to succeed.

Space is not a two-year objective. It used to be, in the early '60's, we had this eye candy of Mercury and Gemini and Apollo and every year we would do something more and more and it met those needs. But the easy stuff has been done.

I don't think the space station is innovative. Going to the moon was innovative because we had no idea how to do it.

One of my goals is to reinvent philanthropy.

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.