Our children are trying to tell us something. And we are not listening.

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.

Corpses sour you. They are bad for objectivity.

Change doesn’t always mean instability, you know. Being dormant? Now that’s crippling, much worse than change.

The bottom line is, if you're pregnant, don't travel to an area where Zika is spreading.

Censure pardons the ravens but rebukes the doves. [The innocent are punished and the wicked escape.]

Slavery is more mental than anything

The longer it takes you to select a cantaloupe, the worse it is!

I think the fact that us as a race still continues to be very tribal and we haven't really moved away from that over hundreds and hundreds of years of experience.

Man has been lent, not given, to life.

I wish I was a little bit taller.

Read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read...if you don't read, you will never be a filmmaker.