My wife and I have five children and the reason why we have five children is because we do not want six.

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.

Because you’re a creation of God, you reflect the Divine qualities of creativity, wisdom, and love.

Sometimes the decision is placed in your hands and you just have to go with it, right or wrong, according to what you think is best.

You have half our gifts. I the other. Together we make a whole. Together we are much more powerful.

I learned that music should be fun and should be a way to express yourself, that there aren't really any rules.

You are the knowing, not the condition that is known.

I am a very committed person when it comes to finding common ground.

Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution.

As a director, you have to understand what is happening - if I don't understand it, you can't make changes.

Sire, I am my own Rudolph of Hapsburg.

Arithmetic arithmetock Turn the hands back on the clock How does the ocean rock the boat? How did the razor find my throat? The only strings that hold me here Are tangled up around the pier.