Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.

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.

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.

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

The father of Egyptology was Father Athanasius Kircher.

Dear Lover...you are the only man, who never hurt me, but broke my heart.

England have nothing to lose here, apart from this test match.

Stiffening the spine of progressive members of Congress is crucial.

The secret of friendship is expressing kindness with your eyes and through the tone of your voice, not only with words.

Going back to the noir fiction of the 30s, 40s and 50s. It's very contemporary.

Americans just don't understand dry wit.

There are a lot of things money can't buy. Not one of them is on my son's list.

Every child needs nature. Not just the ones with parents who appreciate nature. Not only those of a certain economic class or culture or set of abilities. Every child.