My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own fatherhood, but it didn't because parenting can only be learned by people who have no children.

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.

Now that we are cool, he said, and regret that we hurt each other, I am not sorry that it happened.

Among the men who fought on Iwo Jima, uncommon valor was a common virtue.

We're all made to make mistakes; nobody's perfect.

I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

To avoid tripping on the chain of the past, you have to pick it up and wind it about you.

We take refuge in illness and then are trapped there.

The first amendment protects free speech, but if you don't have freedom of thought, do you really have freedom of speech?

I've spent hundreds of thousands of pounds on the very best security and I can assure you my homes are as safe as the Bank of England.

The purpose of dharma is to help your mind to expand, to grow, to clarify. It should uphold us and create an inner sense of peace, joy, and clarity.

Although I am deeply grateful to a great many people, I forgo the temptation of naming them for fear that I might slight any by omission.