I was'nt always black. there was this freckel that just grew and grew.

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.

I want the cultures of all lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown of my feet by any

... and what happened next?

One sided-love always goes with the urge of possessing.

Never try to catch two frogs with one hand.

It's a lot easier to act when the writing is good. Nothing is more frustrating than trying to figure out 'Well, why did I say this next?'

What I saw in Baltimore was distressing and it tells me we need stronger policies in this country.

Why are you stingy with yourselves? Why are you holding back? What are you saving for - for another time? There are no other times. There is only now. Right now.

Instead of wishing things would change, I'm asking God for His strength to make a change.

The Bible is God's Word given in man's language

...Delay, says Dr. Manner, is a luxury which people with right-now cancers cannot afford.