In your 50s, time becomes precious and must not be wasted. Every minute is an excellent opportunity for a good nap. Happy 50th birthday!

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.

Reader one moment stop and think, That I am in eternity and you are on the brink.

I realize myself that hate wastes a lot of time and energy and I would rather re-direct any energy that I have to good and positive use.

Men of vision. Oh, I love the fine names men give each other to hide their greed and lust for adventure.

Someone bent on suicide won't have much sense of humor left.

We may argue eloquently that 'Honesty is the best Policy' - unfortunately, the moment honesty is adopted for the sake of policy it mysteriously ceases to be honesty.

The future belongs to you, but it can only belong to you if you participate and take charge

I simply can´t resist a cat, particularly a purring one. They are the cleanest, cunningest, and most intelligent things I know, outside of the girl you love, of course.

For women, beauty is more important than the mind, because the man is easier to watch than to think.

Governments are not representative.

It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.