If you speak your mind and if it is true what you're saying, then I think the integrity of what you're saying carries through.

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.

Don’t despise little things that contain tiny miracles. Enjoy little actions!

She hadn't seen a doctor cry before, they usually don't, that makes itharder.- Anita

I intended an Ode, And it turned to a Sonnet.

I'm not going to lie. I am a psycho. Luckily, I get most of it out on stage.

You shall above all things be glad and young.

She doesn't feel like crying anymore.

I'm no fan of what I've seen health insurance companies do.

I think I dislike what I don't like more than I like what I like.

Far better it is to have a stout heart always and suffer one's share of evils, than to be ever fearing what may happen.

It was really a pleasure to play someone who’s literally pushed past her breaking point repeatedly.