Men and women belong to different species and communications between them is still in its infancy.

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.

Is it OK to say, "these are the things that I value. This is what I'm going to pursue in life"?

The kind of people we have in Washington only trust what they think they own.

I hope to be acting until I'm playing the role of Grandma, and I'd like to branch out in film - producing, directing, all of it. I'll sleep when no one wants to hire me!

What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?

History is not merely what happened. It is what happened in the context of what might have happened.

You think you are alone. Then you raise your eyes, and you are surrounded.

You always get back much more than you give.

President Obama is launching a new $6 billion space policy that will ultimately take astronauts to Mars. Of course, it's $6 billion and $45 if the astronauts have a carry-on.

It's an ordinary day for Brian. Like, he died every day, you know.

They have been grand-jurymen since before Noah was a sailor