Anyone can dabble, but once you've made that commitment, your blood has that particular thing in it, and it's very hard for people to stop you.

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.

...утро приносит мыслям ясность и прогоняет сказки.

Horror is a feeling that cannot last long

I have never owned a computer. I am one of those weirdos. I've never needed a computer. I'm lucky that I have a job where I'm not required to use one.

For the first time, you can actually see the losers turn green

I like L.A., I like the fans, I like to come out here to work.

The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.

I'm a believer that things happen. Fate is what happens.

The misfortune is, that religious learning is too often rather considered as an act of the memory than of the heart and affections; as a dry duty, rather than a lively pleasure.

By examining the tongue of the patient, physicians find out the diseases of the body, and philosophers the diseases of the mind.

'The Wire' really drew on a lot of real-life situations and real-life organizations - it created fiction to make a social statement about reality.