I'm not sure if my parents had me because they loved me, or because they wanted someone to watch their other children.

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.

It was a cool day and very clear. You could see a long way-but not as far as Velma had gone.

Mankind's greatest gift... is that we have free choice.

When I was a little boy, I wanted to be a baseball player and also join the circus. With the Yankees, I've accomplished both.

You can't regret a whole period in your life. . . . It's part of who you are, one of your stories.

There is no use in loving things if you have to be torn from them, is there? And it's so hard to keep from loving things, isn't it?

There is no thing which God cannot accomplish.

If you're going to fail...FAIL FORWARD

It is not God's fault. It is our fault that we suffer. Whatever we sow we reap.

Let go of what has passed. Let go of what may come. Let go of what is happening now. Don't try to figure anything out. Don't try to make anything happen. Relax, right now, and rest.

We don't need this religious cosmopolitanism. It's no good.