Pay off your student loan. Even if you don't have a job...Because when you finally get a job you're going to be one of us.

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.

Loving ourselves is a revolutionary act!

Maybe you actually do need to face obstacles with someone to know that they're the one you'd sacrifice for.

Representation, then, is not - nor can it be - neutral; it is an act - indeed the founding act - of power in our culture.

I'm not worried about misconception or a perception that's bad. If I were, I'd be chasing something all the time.

Spake full well, in language quaint and olden, One who dwelleth by the castled Rhine, When he called the flowers, so blue and golden, Stars, that in earth's firmament do shine.

We're making progress. Our military is assisting in Iraq. And we're hoping that within the year we'll be able to push ISIS out of Iraq and then, you know, really squeeze them in Syria.

I'm aware that not all kids can pick up and fly to Panama. I'm very lucky.

There are people with a lot more talent than I have who have been weeded out of the league because they couldn't put their egos aside to fill a role.

An annibabtist is a thing I am not a member of.

We were such a part of everybody's life in the Second World War. We represented something overseas and at home - a sort of security.