Beware of people who fall at your feet. They may be reaching for the corner of the rug.

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.

There is no cause for nostalgia save the good and life-enhancing nostalgia for the present.

And then, one fairy night, May became June.

My wife divorced me because of illness. She got sick of me.

You write a book and you hope somebody will go out and pay $24.95 for what you've just said. I think books were my salvation. Books saved me from being miserable.

Try to be free: you will die of hunger.

The mechanism of violence is what destroys women, controls women, diminishes women and keeps women in their so-called place.

I think that all things are spirit and are derived from spirit. When you look at life from that perspective, it takes on a whole new meaning.

Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.

God wants us to become himself or herself or itself. We are growing toward Godhood. God is the goal of evolution.