If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right.

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 wound never heals until the grudge is completely gone.

Frightened that you'll be overcome by yourself? That a gentle monster inside of you might take over and never let go?

No matter how far down a path you go, if it's the wrong path, turn around and go back home - before it is too late.

Thank you, Lord, that You are the Conqueror and that You want to make us more than conquerors.

It is impossible to find a single example of a monopoly that has ever existed without official protection.

Water surrounds the lotus flower, but does not wet its petals.

Fundamentally, American society is composed of individuals who don't go out of their way to do each other favours.

Spring Training is a fun time for me.

Therefore God's universal law Gave to the man despotic power Over his female in due awe, Not from that right to part an hour, Smile she or lour.

In the crazy world of touring, if something gets stuck at customs, I can do a show with just my amp!