Let me say this: I only expect the black media to uphold the standards of excellence in journalism and when you do that, you have to go in with a neutral mind.

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.

We had little but we didn't know we had little. It seemed to us that we had much and we were very content.

You don't pay a cent to dream so why dream of becoming king's guard when you can dream of being a King

The superior man is modest in his speech but excels in his actions.

Youth sports could not exist without millions of volunteers and modestly paid coaches who teach our children how to skate and catch and dribble and also how to get along with others.

They had Jan Venegoor of...whatever you call him.

Sole judge of Truth, in endless Error hurled: / The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!

Science is what scientists do.

Confidence quickly curdles into arrogance; smarts turn to smugness, charm turns to smarm.

You wouldn't say ' You've got the crappest eyes I've ever seen. Your eyes make me physically sick.

I do not impersonate females! How many women do you know who wear seven inch heels, four foot wigs, and skintight dresses?