Let us now set forth one of the fundamental truths about marriage: the wife is in charge.

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.

The more you learn, the more you know there is still alot more to learn't

When coming back, we may notice we have changed because others haven’t.

If I'd spoken, even just one word, I would have never been able to hold back what I feel for you. You would have run.

You have no idea how many doors closed on me and how many adults were either initially reluctant to take a chance working with me or who outright laughed at me behind my back.

Capitalism has not proven to be a transitional form, a gateway to a higher human future.

It's not the darkness that people fear; it's what they imagine into the darkness.

If you don’t try at anything, you can’t fail.

There's a big difference between falling in love and being in love. There's a big difference between infatuation and falling in love.

I use a lot of old-fashioned expressions.

The difference between a top-flight creative man and the hack is his ability to express powerful meanings indirectly.