If a white man falls off a chair drunk, it's just a drunk. If a Negro does, it's the whole damn Negro race.

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.

The combination of power, optimism and abstract thinking makes powerful people more certain. The more cut-off they are from others, the more confident they are that they are right.

My attitude is never to be satisfied, never enough, never.

Man has an incurable habit of not fulfilling the prophecies of his fellow men.

As attorney general, Ive had some connection with just about every important public issue in the last eight years in Kentucky. All of the important public issues of the day have, at some point.

I write any sort of rubbish which will cover the main outlines of the story, then I can begin to see it.

When I'm working on a book, I constantly retype my own sentences. Every day I go back to page one and just retype what I have. It gets me into a rhythm.

I look at myself as the 'Batman' of track -- a vigilante. You may not like me, but I'm needed.

If we want to get rid of Obamacare, we're going to have to replace President Obama.

In 1941 Richard Owen said that the dinosaurs were almost hot blooded.

When you have a person in power who punishes people for speaking their mind, it's truly dangerous.