I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.

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.

Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry.

Every morning is a big, bright, window that opens just for you to fill your life with the light of joy.

Silencing the brain's ramblings gives the chance for wonderful thoughts to bloom.

I don't play any tournaments to come second best.

Before Simon could answer, he heard the sound of the front door opening. He looked daggers at Jace. "That's my roommate. Kyle. Be nice." Jace smiled charmingly. "I'm always nice.

If I were really fluent and born into the English language, I would probably become a greater writer.

I really enjoy working on small films.

I was just thinking of James Dean and Marilyn Monroe and how young they were when they died. I would like to be a pop icon who survives. I would like to be a living icon.

I don't know how many years I can still play. I have to listen to my body and see how it feels.

The world would be a better place if people stopped voting for folksy candidates they could have a beer with and started voting for people smarter than they are.

The mythic is everywhere.