I wasn't always black... there was this freckle, and it got bigger and bigger.

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.

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.

Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry.

Music does not have a race or a disposition! ... Every instrument has a voice that contributes. Music is a universal language...Music surpasses all distinctions between people.

The Window to the Universe Opens Inward and Outward.

Having begun, constantly move forward toward your goal, and you will definitely attain your goal.

Check your moves well, because it can cost one pawn or losing a lot of just from three moves!

I stumbled on a joke idea and style that worked, the audience went with it and, from that moment on, I was hooked. It's an amazing feeling.

In the office, I actually act quite demented the whole day. Like Monty Python. That's my favorite kind of humor. My assistants sometimes ask me to leave.

I wrote without much effort; for I was rich, and the rich are always respectable, whatever be their style of writing.

I've never made $20 million. I'm scared. I don't know if you gave me The Ring if I could carry it and bring it to Ozamorph, or whatever you call it.

What's the difference between a hockey mom and a mass turkey-murdering machine? Looks like about 15 feet.

America is a country that doesn't know where it is going but is determined to set a speed record getting there.