People should fact check. People shouldn’t have to go through that and shouldn’t answer to innuendos.

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.

Cynicism is a boring and dull old man’s disease people have no business getting when they’re young.

Death was far more certain than God.

The fact that a Republican is in the late Senator Kennedy's old seat probably must have him rolling in his grave, probably spilling his drink.

Oh, I'm a dangerous criminal, I am,' said the dwarf cheerfully.

One thing for sure - a sheep is not a creature of the air.

That way of inspiration is always open, and open to everyone; it acts as go-between, interpreter, it explains symbols of the past in to-day's imagery.

My childhood taught me nothing... zero.

It's one thing to donate money. It's a whole other thing to give an opportunity for someone to make his own money.

Loneliness and the feeling that you're no use to anyone - the worst kind of poverty.

The act of multitrack recording is the act of arranging.