I'm not the healthiest, but I am healthy. I'm healthy to the point where there are things that I have to eat that I don't want to eat, but I eat it because I'm enjoying staying alive.

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.

A woman who's self confident doesn't need to compete with other females. She knows her worth and lives a purpose filled life.

Why do people who read Shakespeare still spend hours watching shitty TV or staring out of the window or arguing about whose dinner party to go to?

Truth, with a capital T, was swapped for Fact with a capital F, then both lower-cased —facts the new trues.

Art can do much, but this maxim's most sure/A weak or wounded brain admits no cure.

I don't think of the note in technical terms. I sing the emotion that I am feeling.

I hate it when you see talented teams with a lot of scorers and they can't get along with each other.

Just love the one in front of you. Take in the orphan, take in the widow. Just love the one in front of you.

I spent the first 25 years of my life not knowing what I wanted to do.

I don't know how else to tell the story except to utilise that vocabulary: the rain, the darkness, the mansions, the framing, etc, the lighting and that sort of thing.

War is not the answer, for only love can conquer hate