I'm a Christian. But Muslims are misunderstood. Intentionally misunderstood. We should all be more like them.

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.

Career is a marathon race, not a 100-meter sprint ~ Deepak Mehra

All the mysteries of the universe are solved within the Imagination.

The presence of a problem in your life isn't to give you something to worry and cry about, but to occupy you with solving it and growing from its process.

An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought.

Capablanca was snatched too early from the chess world. With his death we have lost a great chess genius, the like of whom we will never see again.

We cannot eradicate violence if we do not build strong, inclusive communities.

I’m living in separate universes, and I have no idea where I actually belong.

The great majority of women are more intelligent, better educated, and far more moral than multitudes of men whose right to vote no man questions.

The only mountain that I would still like to climb: I'd like to break 85.

Im just not really attracted to black chicks.