It isn't a matter of black is beautiful as much as it is white is not all that's beautiful.

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.

The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it.

Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry.

When you are seeking love, love is seeking you.

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

We have happy days, remember good dinners.

Press agent - a man who hitches his braggin' to a star.

Somehow reading a book never feels like sitting still.

Our passions are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes.

God exists in eternity. The only point where eternity meets time is in the present. The present is the only time there is.

Pro football was taking off when I became commissioner, and when a sport's successful and you're its chief executive officer, much of the credit flows to you and you develop a good track record.

Do you speak Chopnese huh? Do ya? Chop chop chop chop chop. Aha you don't.

I think metaphysics is good if it improves everyday life; otherwise forget it.