What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.

When you confer a benefit on those worthy of it, you confer a favor on all.

When it comes to space, I see it as my job, I'm building infrastructure the hard way. I'm using my resources to put in place heavy lifting infrastructure so the next generation of people can have a dynamic, entrepreneurial explosion into space.

I've never been the sort of firebrand that I've been made out to be. I'm actually quite a mild person.

I have often been downcast but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary, I treat all the privations as amusing.