Meadowlark and I share a common vision of bringing joy and laughter to others.

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.

Of that time, there is still much we do not know.

I want to go slow, baby, I really do, " he whispered at the side of her neck. "But I'm not going to be able to this first time." "Thank heavens.

Peace is the friend we find in silence.

You see, the longer you put a problem off, the worse it becomes

One returns to the place one came from.

Wisdom is seldom gained without suffering.

Don't knock the ball in the stands, keep it in your hands!

Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent for doing it. I am zeroing in on what I do best.

In a body [like Congress] where there are more than one hundred talking lawyers, you can make no calculation upon the termination of any debate.

I'm just me - the way I am.