I don't think you can bring the races together by joking about the differences between them. I'd rather talk about the similarities, about what's universal in their experiences.

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.

Feelings are feelings, no matter when they happen. Our bodies don't stop being ours just because worse things happen to other people.

I find I'm luckier when I work harder.

How hard, how desperately hard, is the way of the experimenter in art!

The housing market it at a record high that its never been at also.

I will rejoice the day when they say: This is right whether we all rot on top of each other or not, dear children, as we certainly may. Either practice restraint or be prepared for crowding.

I care what 51 percent of the people think about me.

To be interested is to be absorbed in, wrapped up in, carried away by, some object. To take an interest is to be on the alert, to care about, to be attentive.

Forgive me-he mumbled against her lips. Please. Forgive me for what I'm going to do to you. ~Shade

A practitioner in panegyric, or, to speak more plainly, a professor of the art of puffing.

Alcohol is an allergy of the body and an obsession of the mind.