The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it.

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.

Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry.

Everything that drowned me taught me how to swim.

Well, that's the thing about choices, isn't it? There are always more to make. I've never seen a street where you couldn't cross to the other side.

Before Simon could answer, he heard the sound of the front door opening. He looked daggers at Jace. "That's my roommate. Kyle. Be nice." Jace smiled charmingly. "I'm always nice.

One of my biggest musical influences is definitely Ella Fitzgerald as a vocalist.

Throughout history the world has been laid waste to ensure the triumph of conceptions that are now as dead as the men that died for them.

I'm not out here to be beefing with nobody.

A little attention, a pat on the head, and a kind word every now and then is all your dog asks.

Only a smile can make the tears dissapear

The key word in profiteering is profit.

Successful guilt is the bane of society