A baseball manager has learned a lot about his job from having played the game, but a parent has not learned a thing from having once been a child.

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing.

People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what's bitter and move on.

Nothing I've ever done has given me more joys and rewards than being a father to my children.

Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.

I wasn't always black... there was this freckle, and it got bigger and bigger.

Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made.

It isn't a matter of black is beautiful as much as it is white is not all that's beautiful.

The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it.

Every story of conversion is a story of blessed defeat.

The weakness of most men they do not know how to become a stone or tree.

The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.

What is the use of being elected or re-elected unless you stand for something?

I hate doing features because rappers take forever to get you their verses.

It bewilders me when people speak to you rudely or are mean, because I'd never be that way.

Sarah Palin is a compelling political figure.

You need to realize that most writing rules aren't laws, they're rules of thumb.

My list of things I never pictured myself saying when I pictured myself as a parent has grown over the years.