I am certainly not an authority on love because there are no authorities on love, just those who've had luck with it and those who haven't.

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.

Good friends will allow you to be as innocent and free as a child when in private, and as wise and mature as an adult when in public.

Man, ought to take care o his own business.don't you think, Mr. Mayor?

Books should be tried by a judge and jury as though they were crimes.

I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator.

In my neighborhood, everyone had an opinion on the local cantor. You didn't go to a synagogue to listen to the rabbi's sermon. You went to listen to the cantor. It was like a concert.

There are no problems, there is only confusion. When confusion passes away, there is only happiness. Happiness is not complicated at all.

I think that the great part of creativity is overcoming fear. Fear is a given. When you sit down and have to begin something, don't be afraid to be filled with fear, because it goes with the turf.

If I want to wear a long flowing dress, someone will say I'm pregnant.

Every girl should have a little black dress, a great boyfriend blazer and a pair of skinny jeans in their wardrobe.

I accept you as you are, and I will always hold you close in my heart. I will walk beside you forever. (Fang)