"Some of the greatest battles will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul."

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

Source : "Now 0-for-3, Spacex's Elon Musk Vows to Make Orbit". Interview with Carl Hoffman, www.wired.com. August 05, 2008.

“I was very fond of strange stories when I was a child.”

“Hyperrealism is more about objectifying... how an object can be portrayed when it is seen through a camera's lens... all my paintings are about an object being viewed through human eyes.”

“Playing things too safe is the most popular way to fail,”

“Do you know New York stifles me? It makes me so unhappy. There are so many things I want, and so many things I cannot afford to have. I don't see how people ever have money enough to live here.”

“Ending AIDS is an opportunity for this generation. We should not miss this opportunity”

“We must become bigger than we have been: more courageous, greater in spirit, larger in outlook. We must become members of a new race, overcoming petty prejudice, owing our ultimate allegiance not to nations but to our fellow men within the human community.”

Source : Address to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 6 October 1963

“I cuss like a sailor; I smoked cigarettes for many years but quit and have never looked back; also, I ride a motorcycle... in Los Angeles... so there ya go.”