In spite of what Thomas Jefferson wrote, all men may be created equal, but not to all women.

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.

Life is finite so celebrate your birthday with infinite joy.

The face of God shines as a light on our path

Teaching middle school is an adventure not a job.

The beauty and music...It is a call...And some are not strong.

How could she have believed such an artificial life as the theatre was suitable?

Far better for a man that he had never been born than that he should degrade a pulpit into a show box to exhibit himself in.

Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.

Marriage the happiest bond of love might be, If hands were only joined when hearts agree.

Embodied courage chooses not to wait until illness or notice of death demands attention.

Nothing comes from violence and nothing ever could, for all those born beneath an angry star, lest we forget how fragile we are.