Take your bottom lip and pull it over your head.

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.

In this time of 'information overload', people do not need more information. They want a story they can relate to.

[E]very heresy is due to an overemphasis upon some truth, without allowing other truths to qualify and balance it.

Many lives are wasted by just waiting for something good to come from the horizon instead of going to the horizon and finding something good over there!

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender that is strength.

I'm very fond of the Talent series, and also the Crystal Singer trio.

Liberals are my friends, my colleagues, my social world.

Sexual intercourse began in 1963 ... / Between the end of the Chatterley ban/ and the Beatles first LP

The mountains look on Marathon And Marathon looks on the sea; And musing there an hour alone, I dreamed that Greece might still be free.

Live with a purpose, play with a purpose.

My father has a pragmatic mind. He marched with Dr King in the 60s, and he's very much for women's rights.