Brown versus the Board of Education is no longer the white person's problem.

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.

You will never feel alone if you love the person you are living with.

To awaken quite alone in a strange parallel universe is the priceless moment to a time traveler!

Tonight is going to be a big night, like any other night, because certain 10 million Americans will not be able to sleep well tonight.

Even today, I am still very child-like while designing. It's a bit like Christmas - each of your designs you create is like unravelling your presents.

I'm a doctor and a politician. Weapons are foreign to me.

The only way to find out is to find out.

A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world.

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? - Who will watch the watchers?

I have no interest whatsoever in being a high-fashion model, nor is it possible

If we had joined efforts some time ago [with U.S], we could have avoided many problems the world is facing now, I believe.