I have to follow my thoughts and mine for the gold. I have to dig it out.

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.

Live Each And Every Moment as it will never come back when its gone.

Love is like a prison..difficult to breakout, painful to get caught and easier to get in.

When someone repeatedly insists that something isn't true, it increases the likelihood that it is.

Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man living in the sky.

I think feminism has always been global. I think there's feminism everywhere throughout the world.

The notion that you do not negotiate with terrorists is not the history of humanity or of the world.

Even just seconds ahead is unknown; even just seconds after is open to infinite possibilities.

We can take her. Besides, he deserves someone who doesn't shop at Gap Kids. -Rose to Lissa on Mia and Aaron

If you want to succeed you must never stop learning, never stop trying and just keep being yourself. You are your own person. You make the choices in life that affect you.

Enthusiastic Admiration is the first Principle of Knowledge and its last.