It's more blessed to give than to receive - especially kittens.

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 in the hands of a woman. And I want to die in the hands of one.

He's got to have the ability, and it seems to be fairly rare, to see things as they are and at the same time as they might have been. What we mean is the eye of an artist.

Make connections; let rip; and dance where you can.

I back away from conscious thought and turn the problem over to my unconscious mind. It will scan a broader array of patterns and find some new close fits from other information stored in my brain.

Target is one of the best at really listening to the artist and understanding what they are about.

War is not something that can be won. Everybody loses at war.

The information that is passed from person to person and from generation to generation is the primary factor that gives humans a competitive advantage over other animals.

The public needs the equivalent of Chevrolets as well as Cadillacs.

Walking with your chest out and your head held high says you have earned the right to stomp and pummel this particular piece of real estate.