College was a wonderful time - except, of course, when it was trying to teach you things.

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.

Upon achieving a lifelong dream, I thought, this is the way to live your life -- in the moment, and to the fullest.

It was the meanest moment of eternity.

ATHEIST is really a thoroughly honest, unambiguous term, it admits of no paltering and no evasion, and the need of the world, now as ever, is for clear-cut issues and unambiguous speech.

Keep your heart wide open and you’ll be received with open hearts — not by everyone, but to be received by one open heart is more than worth the journey.

Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.

Good architecture is necessary to give programs enough structure to be able to grow large without collapsing into a puddle of confusion.

We blame equally him who is too proud to put a proper value on his own merit and him who prizes too highly his spurious worth.

The quickest way to take the starch out of someone who is always blaming himself is to agree with him.

You know, you can't make the people do what you want them to do.

To catch a ball, I'd commit suicide.