Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit.

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.

Freedom is not a license to act but a license to exercise free choices in any given situation.

Don't be afraid, just play the music.

The biggest catch need not be grandest at all.

I spent two years in the military service, then I trudged around in repertory for quite a while. I somehow wound up at the National Theatre, though, and then I was definitely on my way.

We have had plenty of atheist presidents; they just wouldn't admit it.

Ive got a lot of friends there and there is stuff to do but as much as I dislike LA I really like living and working in New York City.

Neither pleasure nor pain should enter as motives when one must do what must be done.

The first one, we’ll name Blue.

The earth has grown old with its burden of care, But at Christmas it always is young.

Who can be patient in extremes?