A grandchild is God's reward for raising 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.

If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they'd immediately go out.

Lord! I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.

I was just confident my work was good.

To appropriately respond to an emergency requires a very clear mind, to cooly analyze what the observations are and how to fix it.

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Ellen had long ago stopped being embarrassed by temper tantrums. She flipped it and wore it like a badge of honor. A temper tantrum was a sign that a mom said no when it counted.

I just think that if you use materials that have an ability to communicate directly, you open up a channel and you can work through that. So you are using the power of materials.

At least the fundamentalists haven't tried to dilute their message. Their faith is exposed for what it is for all to see.

A team takes on the personality of the head coach.

You are a woman: you must never speak what you think; your words must contradict your thoughts, but your actions may contradict your words.