Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing.

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.

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.

Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry.

A man never grows out of wanting and desiring money that follows him through life.

Alice, it took big, dumb Talon Dodo thirty seconds to get you so pissed about a poker hand pun that you were about to beat him to death with your cane.

The minute you start compromising for the sake of massaging somebody's ego, that's it, game over.

Courage is... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.

A viable new feminism must directly confront the realm of practice.

History is written by winners, so most history books are about people who win.

We need to respond to the mood of the people - that we must take the lives of the other side as well.

I've written thousands of stories, started hundreds of news cycles.

We're not like pop musicians who have to perform the same top ten tunes every night of a tour.