All men should freely use those seven words which have the power to make any marriage run smoothly: You know dear, you may be right

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.

I think [the spotlight] is a lonely place to be. Everybodys wanting something from you, pulling at you.

I believed that I was being forced to sacrifice my family and my career in defense of the Communist Party, from which I had long been separated and which I had grown to dislike and distrust.

She's an old lady and she's ill. You just hold your head high and be a gentleman. Whatever she says to you, it's your job not to let her make you mad.

Be careful never to retire to rest in a room not properly ventilated.

What the best and wisest parent wants for his own child, that must the community want for all of its children.

If I got something to say or do to a man, I'm going to look that man in the eye and tell him what is going to happen. That's just me now

A historian is battling all the time to remember as much as possible.

I wasn't taking drugs or drinking. I was working and working and working. But I wasn't writing anything.

All envy would be extinguished, if it were universally known that there are none to be envied.

Date a woman with children only if you are ready to man up, because it's a position that comes with responsibility.