A child who is disciplined will be more obedient and also more organized as a student.

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.

If there is anyone who owes everything to Bach, it is certainly God.

More and more NFL players have been willing their bodies to science so that their brains can be studied even if they die of other causes.

One of the greatest sounds of them all-and to me it is a sound-is utter, complete silence.

I'm not besotted with the notion of being on CNN to the point that I'm going to suddenly morph into Anderson Cooper or Christiane Amanpour. I'm not a foreign correspondent.

The way we view the world, the ultimate barometer of quality is: if it gets shared, it’s quality.

The emotion felt by a man in the presence of nature certainly counts for something in the origin of religions.

The best medicine I know for rheumatism is to thank the Lord that it ain't gout.

The Winnipeg Art Gallery has a good collection of Inuit art, and most of what I've seen I've seen there or in the few books I have. I should spend more time researching.

Saints make wonderful grandfathers and lousy husbands.

It is the breaking of life that produces the blessing of life.