Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.

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.

Happiness is a state of mind. your state of mind. So you should have some say in it

How could she ever know that someone would pick her story up and carry it with him everywhere?

If you only keep adding little by little it will soon become a big heap.

Knowledge is not skill. Knowledge plus ten thousand times is skill.

For a justice of this ultimate tribunal [the U.S. Supreme Court], the opportunity for self-discovery and the occasion for self-revelation is great.

Every now and then I hear voices in my head, but not very clear. I can't understand what they are saying. It's a mental illness. I have been diagnosed as a manic depressive.

How do you shoot a 150-day movie? You shoot it one day at a time.

Tolerance should really only be a passing attitude: it should lead to appreciation. To tolerate is to offend.

Though The Kite Runner was my first completed novel, I had been writing on and off for most of my life, primarily short stories, and primarily for myself.

You should go to a pear tree for pears, not to an elm.