For college seniors there should be a week of being allowed to cry. Just break down and cry because you are scared and don't know what's next.

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.

You cannot build a dream on a foundation of sand. To weather the test of storms, it must be cemented in the heart with uncompromising conviction.

Morning has animated something in me, too, some dormant thing that for years has known only how to sit and wait. Get a move on, it says. Don't let the day get away.

And when he had crossed the bridge, the phantoms came to meet him.

Can anyone be arrogant when he stands beside the cross?

As for a future life, every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague probabilities.

Whereas with us - what you hear is what's happening right then and there on the stage - so we don't need no stinking technology.

Music is subjective to everyone's unique experience.

[John] McCain has never ripped into [Barack] Obama the way he rips into [Donald] Trump or other Republicans.

I am competitively aggressive. My dream since I was a young boy was to be an NFL quarterback. I am living that dream.

The Earth is beautiful, and bright, and kindly, but that is not all. The Earth is also terrible, and dark, and cruel.