My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.

Nearly every glamorous, wealthy, successful career woman you might envy now started out as some kind of schlep.

You can have your titular recognition. I'll take money and power.

Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.

Poverty is just a word. I mean, how do you dismantle capitalism? It's through small actions. It's through breaking down poverty as a lived experience of not enough food, of your health not being good. So those are things that we can actually work on without ever having to call a politician.

I like money. You like money. We need the money. But, money is not going to bring humanity and spiritualism into your life.

When I was still in my psychiatric residency training in New York City, I was subjected to the doctor draft of that time, during the early fifties, at the time of the Korean War.

SpaceX is very unusual. I don't know of any other startup where the founder put in $100 million of his own money before looking for any outside capital. They have wildly exceeded any reasonable expectations.