If the audience knows you can be funny when you want to be, they will be willing to wait for that payoff.

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.

Unless you build castles in the air, how can you make them?

In omni adversitate fortunæ, infelicissimum genus est infortunii fuisse felicem In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune.

There are ... two kinds of people in this world, those who long to be understood and those who long to be misunderstood. It is the irony of life that neither is gratified.

Chaos is rejecting all you have learned, chaos is being yourself.

A man never becomes an orator if he has anything to say.

Jealousy is always born with love, but does not die with it. In jealousy there is more of self-love than of love to another.

The rules of life are made up. The rules only exist in your mind.

Although crime and corruption decreases within a one-mile radius of a casino, it increases 10 percent within a 35-mile radius by the third year the casino is open.

Without exception, every person who has a great life used love to achieve it. The power to have all the positive and good things in life is love.

My sister had blown out the candle in our breath.That meant our wishes were definitely going to come true