If you know two languages, the level of your intelligence is multiplied a hundredfold in other people's eyes.

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.

My words shouldn’t be trophies to look at, but seeds to continue the cycle of Life.

His smile was small and immediate, crooked, like I’d put his whole world off its axis, but he was somehow okay with that.

The whole world might not see my struggles and obstacles, but God sees them all, and He never hesitates to come to my rescue. So why wouldn't I praise His Mighty name?

Unappreciated because too many of his [Rudyard Kipling's] peers were socialists.

To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

Permaculture is an integrated, evolving system of perennial and self-perpetuating plants and animal species useful to man.

It ain’t innovation unless something moves.

For each inclosed spirit is a star Enlightening his own little sphere

I've been accused of trying too hard to rescue people

Coaching is making men do what they don't want, so they can become what they want to be