In America ... the seven ages of man have become preschooler, Pepsi generation, baby boomer, mid-lifer, empty-nester, senior citizen, and organ donor.

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.

I was born a heretic. I always distrusted people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows.

May your soul be sparked by the glorious light.

I do not like the situation but must endure to fulfil the dream.

Ah ha!" the Doc screeched suddenly, wheeling around. "The salicylic acid! Maybe it SHOULD have been heated first!

All science touches on art; all art has its scientific side.

Evidence of harm is hard to come by.

The difference between a serial killer and a saint is environment. That's a very hard thing to accept because that raises a lot of questions

Agitation is the marshalling of the conscience of a nation to mold its laws.

Good art has everything you need to know about it in the work, not on a wall label. Art is here to take us beyond language.

Can't you just imagine digging up the King, begging him to sing about those heavenly mansions Jesus mentioned.