If you have a question about anything, the answer can be found in a book somewhere in the library.

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.

If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.

Some newspapers have a hands-off policy on favored politicians. But it's generally very small newspapers or local TV stations.

In every other aspect of their life, we have entertainment that is crafted almost to an individual. So they expect that from stand-up as well.

When you start you're trying to achieve staying alive and getting home. If you can do both of those, then you stand a chance of breaking the record.

If the law is a bad law, there is always the contingent right to take action that you would not otherwise take.

Water does not force its way.

Power-over is resorted to time without number because people will not wait for the slower process of education.

When the president of Iran Ahmadinejad says that our debt makes America not a great country, that's a frightening thing.

My suspicion is that we're near a near-term low. The reality is the majority of the selling short-term is over with - the market doesn't want to go down.

I go out on stage, and my intention is to make the first four rows bleed from their ears.