Never say [to younger people] "that was before your time," because the last full moon was before their time!

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.

The bounties of space, of infinite outwardness, were three: empty heroics, low comedy, and pointless death.

I'm not sure if there's truly a name for this kind of place aside from it being anything but remarkable.

Faithfulness and sincerity are the highest things.

I don't belong to anyone.

Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun.

I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.

There's only one requirement for enjoying God's grace: being broke . . . and knowing it.

Resentments are like stray dogs,if you don't pet them, they will go away.

You’re always a kid around your parents… Unless they’re acting like children. Then you don’t get the chance.

I don't want to be an editor - I want to be really forward about that. I would be a horrible editor.