But if that's what you want to be, that's what you will be - as long as you study.

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.

... Desire baffles knowledge and power.

Without a rifle you are nothing, worthless, you are waiting for death, any minute, any second.

Obviously, there has to be a profound change in direction. Otherwise, interest on the national debt will start eating up virtually every penny that we have.

I know why girls go and have their nails done so often and have spa days. It feels awesome.

Zoos should concentrate more on the preservation side of things.

I had had some months of depression. Not serious enough to keep me from work. So, I guess you'd call that a mild depression.

The biggest lesson in photography is that from negative we make a positive

I remembered the 500 people that lived on a reserve outside my little town, behind a big fence.

Wearing a bow tie is a statement. Almost an act of defiance.

All assassins had a full-length mirror in their rooms, because it would be a terrible insult to anyone to kill them when you were badly dressed.