My father would pass gas and then blame it on imaginary animals.

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.

So be careful when you bend over.

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

My idea of a good night out is staying in.

What we do during our working hours determines what we have; what we do in our leisure hours determines what we are.

Money is like a mirror to our culture. What we see tells us who we are.

Employers know the nature of people best.

Everybody draws when they are little.

Playing the villain gets you higher ratings on reality TV and saying outrageous stuff on Twitter gets you more followers.

Wherever you find marital failure, you will find a breakdown in real communication. Wherever you find marital success, you will find a good communication system.