Human beings are the only creatures on Earth that allow children to come back home.

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.

Power came the way a child came -- with agony.

Some women, ” Dahariel said in that same hard tone devoid of any hint of humanity, “getunder a man’s skin until digging them out makes you bleed.

Maybe when we stop looking at blessings as abundance we'll start appreciating the little we have.

I spend a lot of time balancing between faith and disbelief.

Mental degeneracy may be caused by lead poisoning. Or by a poor dip in the gene pool.

It's my singing that allows me to stand apart.

I like to go back and read poems that I wrote fifty years ago, twenty years ago, and sometimes they surprise me - I didn't know I knew that then. Or maybe I didn't know it then, and I know more now.

I'm very proud of my pro-life record, and I've always adopted the idea that, the position that the method of conception doesn't change the definition of life.

I do not envy people who think they have a complete explanation of the world, for the simple reason that they are obviously wrong.

Matter and force are the two names of the one artist who fashions the living as well as the lifeless.